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{{short description|German navy's fast attack craft of World War II}}
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{{Infobox ship class overview
|Name =  ''E-boat'' (German: ''S-boot'')
|Builders =*[[Lürssen]], [[Vegesack]]
* Schlichting-Werft, [[Travemünde]]
* [[Galați shipyard]] and [[Constanța Shipyard]], [[Romania]] (~20 boats re-assembled)
|Operators =*Spanish Civil War
* {{navy|Spain|1938}} (Nationalist)
* World War II
* {{navy|Nazi Germany|name=''Kriegsmarine''}}
* {{navy|Kingdom of Yugoslavia}}
* {{navy|Kingdom of Italy|name=''Regia Marina''}}
* {{navy|Kingdom of Romania}}
* {{navy|Republic of China}} (Post war)
* {{navy|Denmark}}
* {{navy|Norway}}
* {{navy|China}}
* {{navy|United Kingdom}}
* {{navy|West Germany}}
* {{navy|Spain|1938}}
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|Class after = [[Jaguar-class fast attack craft|''Jaguar'' class (post-war)]]
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|In commission range =
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S-1: 1 unit  (Schnellboot 1930)
S-2: 4 units (Schnellboot 1931)
S-7: 7 units (Schnellboot 1933)
S-14: 4 units (Schnellboot 1934)
S-18: 8 units (Schnellboot 1937)
S-26: 4 units
S-30: 16 units (Schnellboot 1939)
S-38: 58 units (Schnellboot 1939/40)
S-38b:
S-100: 81 units
S-151: 8 units
|Total ships cancelled = 259
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|Total ships preserved = 1
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'''E-boat''' was the [[Allies of World War II|Western Allies]]' designation for the [[fast attack craft]] (German: '''''Schnellboot''''', or ''S-Boot'', meaning "fast boat"; plural ''Schnellboote'') of the [[Kriegsmarine]] during [[World War II]]; ''E-boat'' could refer to a patrol craft from an armed motorboat to a large ''Torpedoboot.''{{sfn|Margaritis |2019|p=365}} The name of E-boats was a British designation using the letter ''E'' for ''Enemy''.<ref>{{cite web | last = Wilson | first = Steve | title = Enemy Boats | work = Military.com | url = http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,78723,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121130032815/http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,78723,00.html | archive-date = 2012-11-30 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = E-Boats | work = British Military Powerboat Trust | url = http://www.bmpt.org.uk/boat%20histories/Eboats/index1.htm }}</ref>
The main wartime production boats, from ''S26'' onwards (but often designated the ''S100'' class), were very seaworthy,<ref name="pt-boat.com">[http://www.pt-boat.com/sboot/sboot.html PT-Boat.com–German S-100 Class Schnellboot (Fast Boat)]</ref> heavily armed and capable of sustaining {{convert|43.5|kn|lk=in}}, briefly accelerating to {{convert|48|kn|}}.<ref>PT-Boat.com–German S-100 Class Schnellboot (Fast Boat): [http://www.pt-boat.com/sboot/sboot.html].</ref> These were armed with torpedoes and Flak guns; commonly one 37&nbsp;mm at the stern, one 20&nbsp;mm at the bow with a twin mount amidships, plus machine guns. Armament varied and some ''S26'' class boats substituted a [[Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun|40mm Bofors]] or, less commonly, a [[2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38#2 cm Flakvierling 38|20mm ''flakvierling'']] (quadruple mount) for the aft 37mm cannon.{{sfn|Margaritis |2019|p=365}}
The ''S26'' class boats - which provided the bulk of the wartime deliveries - were {{convert|34.94|m|ftin|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|5.38|m|ftin|abbr=on}} in [[Beam (nautical)|beam]]<!--draft?-->.<ref name="pt-boat.com"/> Their [[diesel engine]]s provided a range of {{convert|700|to(-)|750|nmi|smi km|lk=in|abbr=on}}, substantially greater than the [[gasoline]]-fueled American [[PT boat]]s and  British [[motor torpedo boat]]s (MTBs).<ref>Tent, James F. ''E-Boat Alert: Defending the Normandy Invasion Fleet'' (Annapolis,  Naval Institute Press, 1996), p. 39</ref>
As a result of early war experience of combat against the fast and powerful S-boats, the [[Royal Navy]] created its [[Motor gunboat|MGB]] force and later developed better-matched MTBs, using the [[Fairmile D motor torpedo boat|Fairmile 'D']] hull design.
== History ==
=== Development ===
This design was chosen because the theatre of operations of such boats was expected to be the [[North Sea]], [[English Channel]] and the [[Western Approaches]]. The requirement for good performance in rough seas dictated the use of a round-bottomed displacement hull rather than the flat-bottomed planing hull that was more usual for small, high-speed boats. The shipbuilding company [[Lürssen]] at [[Vegesack]], Bremen, overcame many of the disadvantages of such a hull and, with the private [[motor yacht]] ''[[Oheka II]]'' in 1926, produced a craft that was fast, strong and seaworthy. It was also very light, being constructed of wooden planking over alloy frames.  This attracted the interest of the ''[[Reichsmarine]]'', which in November 1929 ordered a similar boat but fitted with two torpedo tubes. This became the ''S1'', and was the basis for all subsequent E-boats.{{citation needed|date = April 2014}}
After experimenting with the ''S1'', the Germans made several improvements to the design. Small rudders added on either side of the main rudder could be angled outboard to 30 degrees, creating at high speed what is known as the [[Lürssen Effect]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Saunders | first = Harold E. | title = Hydrodynamics in Ship Design, Volume 1 | publisher = Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers | year = 1957 | isbn = 99914-0-571-2 | page = 586}}</ref> This drew in an "air pocket slightly behind the three propellers, increasing their efficiency, reducing the stern wave and keeping the boat at a nearly horizontal attitude".<ref>{{cite web | title = Schnellboot! An Illustrated Technical History – Design, Manufacture and Detail | url = http://www.prinzeugen.com/DesignManufacture.htm | access-date = Dec 16, 2009 | archive-date = May 28, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130528003712/http://www.prinzeugen.com/DesignManufacture.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref> This was an important innovation as the horizontal attitude lifted the stern, allowing even greater speed, and the reduced stern wave made E-boats harder to see, especially at night.{{citation needed|date = April 2014}}
The rounded wood planking hull helped reduce weight, and flattened at the stern area, the aft section area was reduced at high speeds, it allowed more hydrodynamic lift.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schnellboot (S-Boot) / (E-Boat) |url=https://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/detail.php?ship_id=Schnellboot-SBoot |website=militaryfactory.com |access-date=14 February 2023}}</ref>
====Layout====
The internal layout of the E-boat remained the same for all types. Its length was generally divided by eight transverse [[Bulkhead (partition)|bulkheads]] (made of 4mm steel below the waterline and slightly thinner light metal alloy above) into nine watertight compartments.<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 6.</ref> From bow to stern, these were:
# Containing a trimming tank, the anchor chain storage locker, forward "head" (WC) and crew washroom;
# the accommodation for senior ratings (six bunks, including one in a separate curtained-off compartment for the coxswain);
# comprising the captain's cabin on the starboard side, and the radio room on the port side;
# the two forward fuel tanks (capacity 2 x 3,000 litres), one on either side of a centreline walkway, located directly below the bridge;
# the forward engineroom, housing the two wing engines, still with a central walkway between them;
# the second engineroom held the engine driving the central shaft, with a walkway on each side, flanked next to the hull by auxiliary machinery;
# the two largest of the fuel tanks (each of capacity 3,150 litres), again on either side of a central walkway, with a third (smaller) tank of 1,490 litres below the deck;
# the junior ratings' accommodation, with bunks for fourteen men, plus the galley and the stern "head"; the boat's magazine was also in this compartment;
# the two aft fuel tanks (capacity 2 x 2,000 litres) and rudder gear.
Note that the earliest (shorter) boats lacked the first transverse bulkhead, and thus the senior ratings' accommodation was included in the first watertight compartment.
====Personnel====
The earliest six boats had a crew of 12 men, but by the time of the ''S7'' and ''S14'' types (''S7'' to ''S25'') the manning had increased to 18 men. The ''S26'' class required a complement of between 21 and 24 men, and this remained generally constant for all subsequent boats (except the ex-Italian and KS and LS boats). This comprised a commanding officer (usually an ''Oberleutnant zur See''), a Chief Boatswain (''Oberbootsmann''), a Helmsman (''Matrosen-Gefreiter''), about six seamen including those operating semaphore and engine telegraph posts (''Matrosen''), a Chief Engineer (''Obermaschinist''), three engineer NCOs (''Maschinenmaaten''), six engine-room ratings (usually ''Heizer''), two radio operators (''Funkgefreiter'' or ''Funkgast'') for radio communications including decoding, and a torpedo mechanic (''Torpedomechanikergefreiter'') who doubled as the boat's cook.
Crew members could earn an award particular to their work — the ''[[Fast Attack Craft War Badge|Schnellbootkriegsabzeichen]]'' — denoted by a badge depicting an E-boat passing through a wreath. The criteria were good conduct, distinction in action, and participating in at least twelve enemy actions. It was also awarded for particularly successful missions, displays of leadership or being killed in action. It could be awarded under special circumstances, such as when another decoration was not suitable.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
=== Operations with the Kriegsmarine ===
E-boats were primarily used to patrol the [[Baltic Sea]] and the English Channel in order to intercept shipping heading for the English ports in the south and east. As such, they were up against [[Royal Navy]] and Commonwealth, e.g., [[Royal Canadian Navy]] contingents leading up to [[D-Day]], [[motor gunboat]]s (MGBs), [[motor torpedo boat]]s (MTBs), [[Motor launch (naval)|motor launches]], [[Captain class frigate|frigates]] and [[destroyer]]s. They were also transferred in small numbers to the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea by river and land transport. Some small E-boats were built as boats for carrying by auxiliary cruisers.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
E-boats were organisationally under the command of the ''Seekriegsleitung'' or '''SKL''' (the naval warfare command, responsible for the planning, execution and direction of naval warfare), and were administratively organised into flotillas, each originally comprising 8 boats. Consequently most orders for new construction were placed in batches of eight boats, or of multiple of eight. The first half-flotilla (''1st Schnellbootshalbflotille'') was formed in July 1932, but was reorganised as ''1st Schnellbootsflotille'' in June 1935. A second flotilla was established in August 1938, and a third in 1940. Eventually there were fourteen operational flotillas, numbered 1st to 11th plus 21st, 22nd and 24th, together with three training flotillas (''Schnellbootsschulflotille''). Each flotilla required the backup of a depot ship; initially this was provided by the converted steamer ''Nordsea'', but from 1934 a series of purpose-built tenders were commissioned - the ''Tsingtau'' in 1934, followed by the ''Tanga'' (in 1939), ''Carl Peters'' and ''Adolf Lüderitz'' in 1940, and finally the ''Herman von Wissmamm'' and ''Gustav Nachtigal''.
[[File:SCHNELLBOOTE 1.jpg|thumb|left|Schnellboot ''S1'']]
E-boats of the [[Surface flotillas of the Kriegsmarine#Attack boat flotillas|6th & 9th flotillas]] from [[Cherbourg Naval Base|Cherbourg]] attacked [[Exercise Tiger]] on 28 April 1944, causing about 749 American Army and Navy casualties.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
The E-boats of the [[Surface flotillas of the Kriegsmarine#Attack boat flotillas|9th flotilla]] were the first naval units to respond to the invasion fleet of [[Operation Overlord]].<ref name=V.E56 /> They left Cherbourg harbour at 5&nbsp;a.m. on 6 June 1944.<ref name=V.E56 /> On finding themselves confronted by the entire invasion fleet, they fired their torpedoes at maximum range and returned to Cherbourg.<ref name=V.E56>{{cite book |title=The Last Year of the Kriegsmarine |last=Tarrant |first=V.E. |year=1994 |publisher=Arms and Armour Press |isbn=1-85409-176-X |pages=56–57}}</ref>
During World War II, E-boats claimed 101 merchant ships totalling 214,728 tons.<ref name="Connelly&Krakow, 2003. p.54">Connelly & Krakow, 2003. p.54</ref> Additional claims include 12 destroyers, 11 minesweepers, eight landing ships, six MTBs, one torpedo boat, one minelayer, one submarine, and a number of smaller craft such as fishing boats. They also damaged two cruisers, five destroyers, three landing ships, one repair ship, one naval tug, and numerous other merchant vessels. [[Sea mine]]s laid by the E-boats sank 37 merchant ships totalling 148,535 tons, a destroyer, two minesweepers, and four landing ships.<ref name="Connelly&Krakow, 2003. p.54" />
E-boat crews were awarded 23 [[Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross]]es and 112 [[German Cross]]es in Gold.<ref name="Connelly&Krakow, 2003. p.54" />
====Operations in the Black Sea====
To boost Axis naval strength in the Black Sea, the [[Oberkommando der Wehrmacht|OKW]] ordered to the region the transfer of six E-boats of the 1st S-flotilla, the last to be released from action in the [[Baltic Sea]] before refit. The Romanian port of [[Constanța]], in the Black Sea, was chosen as the S-flotilla's headquarters. Transporting the six boats overland from Germany to Romania was an impressive logistical feat. The superstructure and all weapons were removed, leaving only the hull. After a long road journey of 60 hours, the boats arrived at [[Ingolstadt]], where they were transferred back to water and towed towards [[Linz]].<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 234</ref> Upon reaching the Austrian city, the superstructure was rebuilt, then the journey continued down the Danube to [[Galați]], where the main engines were installed. The E-boats then continued on their own power towards [[Constanța]], where refitting was completed.
The first two boats, ''S26'' and ''S28'', arrived in Constanța on 24 May 1942, the second pair, ''S72 and S102'' on 3 June, and the final pair, ''S27'' and ''S40'' 10 days later.<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 235</ref>  After the sinking of ''S27'' by a malfunctioning torpedo, four more reserve boats, ''S47'', ''S49'', ''S51'' and ''S-52'' were dispatched to the [[Black Sea]], in order to replace boats undergoing maintenance.<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 241</ref> ''S28'', ''S72'' and ''S102'' were soon relegated to the [[Constanța Shipyard]] for engine replacement, leaving only ''S26'' and the newly commissioned ''S49'' operational.<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 250</ref> On 1 January 1944, the 1st S-flotilla numbered six operational boats: ''S26'', ''S42'', ''S47'', ''S49'', ''S52'' and ''S79'', while ''S28'', ''S40'', ''S45'' and ''S51'' were all out of commission, undergoing repair in Constanța. Three more boats were shipped down the Danube and were being reconstructed at Constanța.<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 259</ref> On 1 June 1944, 8 boats were operational in Constanța: ''S28'', ''S40'', ''S47'', ''S49'', ''S72'', ''S131'', ''S148'' and ''S149''. The boats were however penned in harbor, due to fuel shortage. During July, ''S26'', ''S28'', ''S40'' and ''S42'' were transferred to [[Sulina]] at the mouth of the Danube, where ''S42'' was fitted with a new propeller. They were joined by ''S72'' in early August, the rest of the boats remaining in Constanța. On 19 August, ''S26'', ''S40'' and ''S72'' were destroyed in port by a Soviet air attack. On 22 August ''S148'' hit a mine and sank near Sulina, and on the following day, ''S42'', ''S52'' and ''S131'' were destroyed in Constanța by a Soviet air attack.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 261">Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 261</ref> What remained of the S-flotilla was disbanded after Romania switched sides on the same day.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 262">Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 262</ref>
===Yugoslav Navy===
Eight E-boats were built by Lürssen, Vegesack for the Yugoslav Navy from 1936 to 1939. These were named ''Orjen'', ''Durmitor'', ''Suvobor'', ''Kajmakcalan'', ''Velebit'', ''Dinaira'', ''Rudnik'' and ''Triglav''. Each measured 28.00 (overall)/27.70 (waterline) x 4.46 x 1.51 m (91&nbsp;ft 10in/90&nbsp;ft 10in x 14&nbsp;ft 4in x 4&nbsp;ft 11in) and 51 tonnes standard (61.7 tonnes full load). Three Daimler-Benz BF2 petrol engines of 1,100&nbsp;hp each = 3,300&nbsp;hp = 33 kts, while they carried 5.8 tonnes of petrrol to give them a radius of 265 nmiles @ 33 knots. Each carried two 550mm torpedo tubes, a 40mm gun and 16 men. ''Kajmakcalan'' and ''Durmitor'' escaped to Alexandria in April 1941 to join the Allies; the other six fell into Italian hands and became ''Ms41'' to ''Ms46'', four of them eventually captured by the Germans and refitted with standard 533&nbsp;mm torpedoes (see below under "''S2 '' class").
===Italian MS boat===
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[[File:MS 472.jpg|thumb|Italian MS 472, post-war configuration]]
The poor seaworthiness of the Italian-designed [[MAS (ship)|MAS]] boats of World War I and early World War II led its navy to build its own version of E-boats, the CRDA 60 t type, classed MS (''Motosilurante''). The prototype was designed on the pattern of the six German-built E-boats captured from the [[Royal Yugoslav Navy|Yugoslav Navy]] in 1941. Two of them sank the British light cruiser {{HMS|Manchester|15|6}} in August 1942, the largest warship to be sunk by fast torpedo craft in the Second World War.<ref name="regiamarina">{{cite web |url=http://www.regiamarina.net/detail_text_with_list.asp?nid=77&lid=1 |title=MAS, VAS and MS |website=regiamarina.net}}</ref>
After the war these boats served with the [[Italian Navy]], some well into the 1970s.<ref name="ANMI">{{cite journal |first=Erminio |last=Bagnasco |title=Le "Nazionali" |journal=Marinai d'Italia |date=January 2011 |volume=LV |issue=1–2 |pages=16–19 |publisher=Associazione Nazionale Marinai d'Italia |url=http://www.marinaiditalia.com/public/uploads/2011_01_16.pdf |access-date=6 April 2016}}</ref>
=== Service in the Spanish Navy ===
The ''Kriegsmarine'' supplied the Spanish [[Francoist Spain|Francoist]] Navy with six E-boats (''S1'' to ''S6'') in December 1936 during the [[Spanish Civil War]], and sold six more (''S73'', ''S78'', ''S124'', ''S125'', ''S126'' and ''S134'') to them in 1943 during the Second World War. Another six were built in Spain with some assistance from Lürssen. A motor boat of the early series, either the ''Falange'' or the ''Requeté'', laid two mines off [[Almería]] that crippled the British destroyer [[HMS Hunter (H35)|HMS ''Hunter'']] on 13 May 1937. The German-built boats were discarded in the 1960s, while some of the Spanish-built ones served until the early 1970s.<ref>Coello, J.L. (1995). ''Buques de la Armada española años de la postguerra''. S.L. AGUALARGA EDITORES, {{ISBN|978-84-88959-15-7}}</ref>
=== Service in China ===
{{Unreferenced section|date=February 2021}}
[[File:German motor-torpedo boat S13 passing under a bridge in the 1930s (NH 91615).jpg|thumb|right|This is one of the ''S-7''-class boats, ''S-13''. The Chinese Navy operated three boats of this class.]]
The [[Chinese Nationalist]] Navy had three ''S7''-class boats during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]].
* [[Yue Fei (torpedo boat class)|''Yue-22'']] (''岳-22'')
* ''[[Yue-253]]'' (''岳-253'')
* ''[[Yue-371]]'' (''岳-371'')
''Yue-22'' was destroyed by Japanese planes, ''Yue-371'' was sunk by its sailors to avoid being captured by the Japanese soldiers and ''Yue-253'' was captured by the [[People's Liberation Army]] during the [[Chinese civil war|Chinese Civil War]]. ''Yue-253'' was renamed "Hoiking" (海鯨), meaning "Seawhale" in [[Chinese language|Chinese]]. The [[People's Liberation Army Navy]] used it as a patrol boat until 1963.
The Chinese Nationalist government also ordered eight E-boats and a [[torpedo boat tender|tender]], [[Chinese torpedo boat tender Qi Jiguang|''Qi Jiguang'']] (戚繼光). These were all taken over while under construction by the ''[[Kriegsmarine]]'' in 1939. The E-boats had MB502 diesels and were shorter (by 2.18m) than the standard ''S26'' design of boats. They were re-numbered as ''S30'' to ''S37'', while the ''Qi Jiguang'' was renamed ''[[German fleet tender Tanga|Tanga]]''.
===Service in the Romanian Navy===
Germany sold four E-boats to Romania on 14 August 1944.<ref>Crăciunoiu, Cristian. ''Romanian navy torpedo boats'' (Modelism Publishing, 2003<!--city?-->), pp. 154-155.</ref> These vessels displaced 65 tons, had a top speed of 30 knots generated by three Mercedes-Benz engines totalling {{cvt|2850|hp|disp=flip}} and were armed with two 500&nbsp;mm (19.685&nbsp;in) torpedo tubes. Each of the four boats had a crew of 25. They were numbered 10 to 13 (formerly ''S151'', ''S152'', ''S153'' and ''S154'') and served in the Romanian Navy until at least 1954.<ref>[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71f2Uz7UShL._SL1467_.jpg ''Jane's fighting ships: 1953-1954'', Sampson Low, Marston, 1955, p. 294]</ref>
=== Post-war service ===
==== Royal Navy ====
At the end of the war about 34 E-boats were surrendered to the British. Three boats, ''S130'' (renamed ''P5230''), ''S208'' (''P5208'') and ''S212'' (''P5212'') were retained for trials.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
===== Operation Jungle =====
{{Main|Operation Jungle}}
The [[Gehlen Organization]], an intelligence agency established by American occupation authorities in Germany in 1946 and manned by former members of the Wehrmacht's ''[[Fremde Heere Ost]]'' (Foreign Armies East), used the Royal Navy's E-boats in order to infiltrate its agents into the [[Baltic states]] and [[Poland]].<ref>[[Höhne, Heinz]]; Zolling, Hermann (1972). ''The General Was a Spy: The Truth about General Gehlen and his spy ring''. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. pp. 150-53. {{ISBN|0-698-10430-7}}</ref> Royal Navy Commander [[Anthony Courtney]] was struck by the potential capabilities of former E-boat hulls, and [[John Harvey-Jones]] of the [[Naval Intelligence Division (United Kingdom)|Naval Intelligence Division]] was put in charge of the project. He discovered that the Royal Navy still had two E-boats, ''P5230'' and ''P5208'', and had them sent to Portsmouth, where one of them, ''P5230'' (ex-''S130''), was modified to reduce its weight and increase its power with the installation of two [[Napier Deltic]] engines of {{cvt|2500|hp|disp=flip}} each.<ref>{{cite book | last = Peebles | first = Curtis | author-link = Curtis Peebles| title = Twilight Warriors | publisher = Naval Institute Press | year = 2005 | pages = 38–39 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=kZ8elXhfTJIC&q=38 | isbn = 1-59114-660-7}}</ref>
Lieutenant-Commander {{ill|Hans-Helmut Klose|de}} was assigned to command a German crew, recruited by the British [[MI6]] and funded by the American [[Office of Policy Coordination]]. The missions were assigned the codename "[[Operation Jungle]]". The boats carried out their missions under the cover of the [[Control Commission for Germany – British Element|British Control Commission's]] Fishery Protection Service, which was responsible for preventing Soviet navy vessels from interfering with German fishing boats and for destroying stray mines. The home port of the boats was [[Kiel]], and operated under the supervision of Harvey-Jones. Manned by Klose and his crew, they usually departed for the island of [[Bornholm]] waving the [[White Ensign]], where they would hoist the Swedish flag for a dash to [[Gotland]], and there they would wait for orders from Hamburg. The first mission consisted in the landing of Lithuanian agents at [[Palanga]], [[Lithuania]], in May 1949,<ref>[[Dorril, Stephen]] (2002).'' MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. ''Simon and Schuster, pp. 190-91. {{ISBN|0-7432-1778-0}}</ref> and the last one took place in April 1955 in [[Saaremaa]], [[Estonia]].<ref name=ad /> During the last two years of the operation, three new German-built motorboats replaced the old E-boats.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hess |first1=Sigurd |title=The Clandestine Operations of Hans Helmut Klose and the British Baltic Fishery Protection Service (BBFPS) 1945–1956 |journal=The Journal of Intelligence History |year=2001 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=169–178 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |doi= 10.1080/16161262.2001.10555054|s2cid=162499902 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXYAGisbPZUC&pg=PA169 }}</ref> Klose was later assigned the command of a patrol boat in the ''[[Bundesmarine]]'' and became commander-in-chief of the fleet before his retirement in 1978.<ref name=ad>Adams, Jefferson (2009)''. Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence''. Scarecrow Press, pp. 234-35. {{ISBN|0-8108-6320-0}}</ref>
==== Royal Danish Navy ====
In 1947, the Danish navy bought twelve former Kriegsmarine boats. These were further augmented in 1951 by six units bought from the Royal Norwegian Navy. The last unit, the P568 ''Viben'', was retired in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.navalhistory.dk/English/TheShips/Classes/Glenten_Class%281947%29.htm|title=GLENTEN Class (1947–1965), Motortorpedoboats|work=navalhistory.dk}}</ref>
==== Royal Norwegian Navy ====
After World War II, the Norwegian Navy received a number of former Kriegsmarine boats. Six boats were transferred to Denmark in 1951.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
=== Operators ===
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== Survivor ==
There is just one surviving E-boat, identified as ''S130''. It was built as hull No. 1030 at the Schlichting boatyard in [[Travemünde]]. ''S130'' was commissioned on 21 October 1943 and took an active part in the war, participating in the [[Exercise Tiger]] attack and attacks on the [[D-Day]] invasion fleet.
According to Dutch military historian Maurice Laarman:<blockquote>
In 1945, ''S130'' was taken as a British war prize (FPB 5030) and put to use in covert operations. Under the guise of the "British Baltic Fishery Protection Service", the British Secret Intelligence Service MI-6 ferried spies and agents into Eastern Europe. Beginning in May 1949, MI-6 used ''S208'', (Kommandant Hans-Helmut Klose) to insert agents into Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland. The operations were very successful and continued under a more permanent organisation based in Hamburg. In 1952, ''S130'' joined the operation and the mission was enlarged to include signal intelligence (SIGINT) equipment. In 1954/55, ''S130'' and ''S208'' were replaced by a new generation of German S-boote.
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''S130'' was returned to the newly formed Bundesmarine in March 1957, and operated under the number ''UW 10''. Serving initially in the ''Unterwasserwaffenschule'' training sailors in underwater weaponry such as mines and torpedoes, she later became a test boat under the name EF 3.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prinzeugen.com/S130.htm|title=Schnellboot E-boat S-130|work=prinzeugen.com|access-date=2011-04-21|archive-date=2011-05-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517060916/http://www.prinzeugen.com/S130.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
''S130'' was on display in [[Wilhelmshaven]], Germany, having formerly been used as a houseboat.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
''S130'' was purchased and towed from Wilhelmshaven to the Husbands Shipyard, Marchwood, [[Southampton]], England in January 2003, under the auspices of the British Military Powerboat Trust. In 2004, ''S130'' was taken to the slipway at Hythe, where, under the supervision of the BMPT, she was prepared and then towed to Mashfords yard in [[Cremyll]], Cornwall, England to await funding for restoration. In 2008, ''S130'', having been purchased by the [[The Wheatcroft Collection|Wheatcroft Collection]], was set up ashore at [[Southdown, Cornwall|Southdown]] in Cornwall to undergo restoration work involving Roving Commissions Ltd. In July 2020, ''S130'' was still awaiting restoration, with the intention that upon completion it would be a museum-ship at the Richmond dry docks in [[Bideford|Bideford, Devon]].<ref name="Boating 2020">{{cite news |title=S130 |url=https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/boating-nz/20200701/283369064287479 |access-date=2 May 2023 |work=Boating Magazine |date=1 July 2020}}</ref>
== Variants and vessels ==
The ''Schnellboot'' design evolved over time.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 31, 2009 |title=german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/index |url=https://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/index.html. |access-date=September 28, 2024 |website=german-navy.de}}</ref> The first groups had a pair of torpedo tubes fitted on the foredeck, but from ''S26'' onwards the forecastle had been raised so that the torpedo tubes were built into the structure.
===''S1''===
The first post-WW1 torpedo boat was ordered in November 1929 to be built by [[Lürssen]] at [[Vegesack]], near [[Bremen]], in 1930 as their Yard No. 12120, using mahogany and light metal composite. Originally numbered as ''UZ(S)16'', it was commissioned into the Reichmarine on 7 August 1930. It was renamed ''W1'' on 31 March 1931, and then as ''S1'' on 16 March 1932. It measured 26.8 x 4.2 x 1.06 metres (87&nbsp;ft x 13&nbsp;ft 9in x 3&nbsp;ft 6in) and had a displacement of 39 tons standard (50 tons full load). Powered by three Daimler-Benz BF2 12-cylinder 900&nbsp;hp petrol engines on three shafts, with a rating of 2,700&nbsp;bhp, it had a sustained speed of 34.2 knots (maximum 39.8 knots). It carried two 500mm (19.685 inch) torpedo tubes and one 20mm flak gun. It had a complement of 12 (later 18) men. Along with the next five boats (''S2'' to ''S6''), it was stricken on 10 December 1936 and sold to Spain as ''Badajoz'' (renamed ''LT15'' in 1939).
The number ''S1'' was re-used in 1939. Five boats had been ordered by Bulgaria from Lürssen, Vegesack, of which the first four were delivered as ''F1'' to ''F4''. The fifth boat was retained in Germany and given the number ''S1''. These were petrol-engined boats, similar to the ''S2'' class built for the Kriegsmarine. Although commissioned in 1939, its petrol engines gave frequent problems, and on 10 September 1940 its stern was rammed (by ''S13'') in Vlissingen, and was later removed from active service.
===''S2'' class===
The first production of the E-boat in 1931, a lengthened version of the prototype ''S1''. The first two were ordered from Lürssen on 28 April 1931 and the other two on 16 July 1931. Each measured 27.95 x 4.2 x 1.06 metres (91&nbsp;ft 8in x 13&nbsp;ft 9in x 3&nbsp;ft 6in) and had a displacement of 46.5 tons standard (58 tons full load). Powered by Daimler-Benz petrol engines on three shafts, with a rating of 3,300&nbsp;bhp, they had a speed of 33.8 knots. Armament and men as in ''S1''. They formed a "Half Flotilla" and were used for training crews for later E-boats; all were stricken on 10 December 1936 (along with ''S1'') for transfer to Spain.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
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| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S2'' ||Lürssen, Vegesack||1 December 1931||22 April 1932||Sold to Spain 10 December 1936, renamed ''Falange'' (''LT13'')
|-
| ''S3''||Lürssen, Vegesack||10 December 1931||27 May 1932||Sold to Spain 10 December 1936, but never commissioned there
|-
| ''S4''||Lürssen, Vegesack||11 June 1932||20 June 1932||Sold to Spain 10 December 1936, renamed ''Requete'' (''LT11'')
|-
| ''S5''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1932||14 July 1932||Sold to Spain 10 December 1936, renamed ''Oviedo'' (''LT12'')
|-
|}
The numbers ''S2'' to ''S5'' were re-used in 1943. Eight petrol-engined boats similar to the original ''S2'' class had been ordered from Lürssen, Vegesack, and completed in 1937-39 for that navy as ''Orjen'', ''Durmitor'', ''Suvobor'', ''Kajmakcalan'', ''Velebit'', ''Dinaira'', ''Rudnik'' and ''Triglav''. When Italy occupied Yugoslavia in April 1941, two of them (''Durmitor'' and ''Kajmakcalan'') escaped to Alexandria and served with the Allied forces, while the other six were commissioned into the Italian Navy as ''Ms41'' to ''Ms46''.<ref name="Aldo Fraccaroli 1968">Aldo Fraccaroli, ''Italian Warships of World War II'', Ian Allan, 1968.</ref> In September 1943 ''Ms41'' (ex ''Orjen'') at [[Monfalcone]] and ''Ms45'' (ex ''Suvobor'') at [[Cattolica]] were scuttled, while the other four were captured by the Germans on 9 September and renamed ''S2'' (ex ''Velebit''), ''S3'' (ex ''Dinara''), ''S4'' (ex ''Triglav'') and ''S5'' (ex ''Rudnik''); all four were scuttled by the Germans at [[Salonika]] in October 1944.
===''S6''===
The first diesel-powered boat was also ordered from Lürssen, Vegesack on 28 August 1932. Its dimensions and other details were the same as for ''S7'' to ''S9''. It was stricken and sold to Spain on 10 December 1936 (together with the preceding petrol-engined boats) and renamed ''Toledo'' (renamed ''LT14'' in 1939 and stricken in 1942).
===''S7'' class===
Built from 1933 onwards. Similar to ''S6'', but with an improved hull form, these were the first operational diesel boats. The first three, ordered (together with ''S6'') on 26 August 1932, were fitted with MAN L7 19/30 diesels on three shafts giving a speed of 36.5 knots and measured 75.8 tonnes standard (95 tonnes full load), while the last four - ordered on 20 July 1932 - were equipped with the more reliable Daimler-Benz MB502 diesels of 3,960&nbsp;hp to produce 35 knots, and were 78 tonnes standard (92 tonens full load). They had a fuel capacity of 10.5 tonnes, giving them a radfius of 600 nmiles @ 30 knots. All measured 32.36 x 5.06 x 1.36 m (106&nbsp;ft 2in x 16&nbsp;ft 6in x 4&nbsp;ft 6in) except that ''S10'' to ''S13'' had a draught of 1.42m (4&nbsp;ft 8in). These carried the larger 533mm (21-inch) torpedoes rather than the 500mm of the petrol-driven boats; two torpedo tubes were mounted on the forecastle, and the boats also carried a single 20mm MgC/30 gun, with a crew of 18 (later 21) men.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
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| Number||Builder||Launched||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S7''||Lürssen, Vegesack||24 February 1934||10 October 1934||Transferred to UK in May 1945, scuttled in the North Sea 2 May 1946.
|-
| ''S8''||Lürssen, Vegesack||23 January 1934||6 September 1934||Converted to fast submarine hunter on 11 September 1940, transferred to UK in 1945, but scuttled in the North Sea on 17 May 1945
|-
| ''S9''||Lürssen, Vegesack||24 February 1934||12 June 1935||Converted to fast submarine hunter on 5 August 1940, <br>transferred to Norway in July 1945, sunk 18 January 1946 in the North Sea,
|-
| ''S10''||Lürssen, Vegesack||26 August 1934||7 March 1935||To USA in 1945; transferred to Norway in 1945, scrapped 1950
|-
| ''S11''||Lürssen, Vegesack||24 October 1934||3 August 1935||Transferred to USSR on 5 November 1945 as ''TK-1002'', scrapped in later 1940s.
|-
| ''S12''||Lürssen, Vegesack||18 February 1935||31 August 1935||Transferred to Norway in July 1945, sunk 18 January 1946 in the North Sea
|-
| ''S13''||Lürssen, Vegesack||29 March 1935||7 December 1935||Transferred to Britain in May 1945, sold and scrapped.
|-
|}
===''S14'' class===
Improved ''S7'' type, ordered on 16 July 1934 (first two) and 5 November 1935 (last two) with new MAN L11 (11-cylinder) engines producing 6,150&nbsp;hp, which proved unsatisfactory. Enlarged hull, measuring 34.62 x 5.26 x 1.67 m (113&nbsp;ft 7in x 17&nbsp;ft 3in x 5&nbsp;ft 6in) and displacing 92.5 tonnes standard (105.4 tonnes full load). After ''S17'' was broken up, the surviving three boatrs were transferred to the Fast A/S Group in 1940.
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| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
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| ''S14''||Lürssen, Vegesack||23 January 1936||12 June 1936||Converted to fast tug, but sunk in the Bristol Channel in 1944.
|-
| ''S15''||Lürssen, Vegesack||15 February 1936||27 February 1937||Transferred to US Navy post-war, but given to Denmark in July 1847 as ''T46'' and broken up there.
|-
| ''S16''||Lürssen, Vegesack||7 April 1937||22 December 1937||Transferred to USSR on 13 February 1946 as ''TK-1003'', scrapped 1950 or later.
|-
| ''S17''||Lürssen, Vegesack||29 July 1937||18 March 1938||Decommissioned 8 September 1939 following heavy storm damage on 4 September off [[Heligoland]], and scrapped.
|-
|}
===''S18'' class===
Built from 1937 onwards. Two new boats were ordered on 21 December 1936 (''S18'' and ''S19'') and six more boats (''S20'' to ''S25'') on 29 December 1937. Almost identical to the ''S14'' class, but with 3 Mercedes Benz MB501 engines (of total 6,000&nbsp;hp) instead of MAN engines. The bridge, which had been in front of the wheelhouse on earlier designs, was raised to the wheelhouse roof to increase all-round visibility.<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 22</ref>
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| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S18''||Lürssen, Vegesack||13 January 1938||14 July 1936||Rebuilt as fast tug boat 1942, sunk by bombing 5 May 1945.
|-
| ''S19''||Lürssen, Vegesack||10 May 1938||6 October 1938||Transferred to Britain post-war, sunk as target ship 1950.
|-
| ''S20''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1 October 1938||21 March 1939||Transferred to Britain post-war, scrapped 1948.
|-
| ''S21''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1 August 1938||19 December 1938||Transferred to Norway in 1945, scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S22''||Lürssen, Vegesack||31 January 1939||16 May 1939||Sunk at Wilhelmhaven by British bombing 30 March 1945.
|-
| ''S23''||Lürssen, Vegesack||23 April 1939||15 July 1939||Badly damaged by mine 12 July 1940 in the North Sea, and scuttled.
|-
| ''S24''||Lürssen, Vegesack||4 July 1939||18 September 1939||Transferred to USSR on 15 January 1946 as ''TK-1004'', scrapped 1950 or later.
|-
| ''S25''||Lürssen, Vegesack||19 September 1939||9 December 1939||Transferred to Britain post-war, scrapped 1948.
|-
|}
===1938 Orders===
In May 1938 it was planned to order six additional boats every year until 1943 (thus providing a projected ''S26'' to ''S61''). However, a speeding-up of production was decided on. Twelve additional boats were ordered - all from Lürssen - in August 1938. These were of two different models, due to accommodating different Daimler-Benz diesels.
====''S26'' class====
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|Header caption =(''S26''-class)
|Ship class = [[Fast attack craft]]
|Ship displacement = 112 tonnes (full load);
92.5 tonnes (standard)
|Ship length = {{convert|34.94|m|ftin|abbr=on}} <ref name="s-boot.net">{{cite web |url=http://www.s-boot.net/englisch/sboats-km-dat-s100.html|title=S-Boats in the Kriegsmarine - "S 100"|date= |website=Die Schnellboot-Seite|access-date=29 January 2022}}</ref>
|Ship beam = {{convert|5.28|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught = {{convert|1.67|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship power ={{convert|6000|bhp|lk=in}}{{citation needed|date=June 2017|reason=specs at bottom of page say 3x2000hp...}}
|Ship propulsion = 3 × [[Daimler Benz]] MB 501 [[marine diesel engine]]s
|Ship speed = {{convert|39|kn|lk=in}}
|Ship range = {{convert|700|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|35|kn}}
|Ship complement = 24 normal (maximum 30)
|Ship crew =
|Ship sensors =
|Ship EW =
|Ship armament =*2 × {{convert|533|mm|abbr=on}} [[torpedo tube]]s (4 [[torpedo]]es)
* 2 × [[2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38|20&nbsp;mm C/30 cannon]] (1x twin)
|Ship armour =
|Ship notes =
}}
|}
The larger type (''S26'' to ''S29''), were ordered on 2 August, and entered service in 1940. Beginning with this model, the two torpedo tubes on the foredeck were encased within a high forecastle deck. This type were slightly lengthened from the ''S18'' design so that the engine compartments could accommodate the larger 20-cylinder diesels, they measured 34.94 x 5.28 x 1.67 m (114&nbsp;ft 8in x 17&nbsp;ft 4in x 5&nbsp;ft 6in), giving a displacement of 92.5 tons (112 tons full load). These dimensions would be retained for all subsequent boats (except for the somewhat smaller ''S30'' class), as the basic design and layout would remain unchanged. The three Daimler Benz engines each produced 2,000&nbsp;hp for a total rating of 6,000&nbsp;hp, providing 39 knots.
[[File:SCHNELLBOOTE 26.jpg|thumb|right|Schnellboot-26]]
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
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| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S26''||Lürssen, Vegesack||7 March 1940||21 May 1940||Sunk in Soviet air attack at [[Sulina]], Romania on 19 August 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 261"/>
|-
| ''S27''||Lürssen, Vegesack||15 April 1940||5 July 1940||Sunk by torpedo in the Black Sea on 5 September 1942
|-
| ''S28''||Lürssen, Vegesack||4 July 1940||1 September 1940||Scuttled at Constanta on 25 August 1944 after heavy damage in air attack.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 262"/>
|-
| ''S29''||Lürssen, Vegesack||14 October 1940||28 November 1940||Sunk 29 March 1943 in action with two British MGBs.
|-
|}
====''S30'' class====
{|{{Infobox ship begin}}
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|Header caption =(''S30''-class)
|Ship class = [[Fast attack craft]]
|Ship displacement = 100 tonnes (full load);
92.5 tonnes (standard)
|Ship length = {{convert|32.76|m|abbr=on}} <ref name="s-boot.net">{{cite web |url=http://www.s-boot.net/englisch/sboats-km-dat-s100.html|title=S-Boats in the Kriegsmarine - "S 100"|date= |website=Die Schnellboot-Seite|access-date=29 January 2022}}</ref>
|Ship beam = {{convert|5.06|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught = {{convert|1.47|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship power ={{convert|3960|bhp|lk=in}}{{citation needed|date=June 2017|reason=specs at bottom of page say 3x1320hp...}}
|Ship propulsion = 3 × [[Daimler Benz]] MB 502 [[marine diesel engine]]s
|Ship speed = {{convert|43.8|kn|lk=in}}
|Ship range = {{convert|800|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|30|kn}}
|Ship complement = 24 normal (maximum 30)
|Ship crew =
|Ship sensors =
|Ship EW =
|Ship armament =*2 × {{convert|533|mm|abbr=on}} [[torpedo tube]]s (4 [[torpedo]]es)
* 3 × [[2 cm Flak 30, Flak 38 and Flakvierling 38|20&nbsp;mm C/30 cannon]] (1x twin, 1x single)
* 1 × [[3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37|37&nbsp;mm Flak 42 cannon]]
|Ship armour =
|Ship notes =
}}
|}
The other eight boats (''S30'' to ''S37'') were 2.18 m (7&nbsp;ft 2in) shorter than the ''S26'' type and 22&nbsp;cm (8.66&nbsp;in) narrower. This is because their engines were the 16-cylinder (2,000&nbsp;hp) Daimler-Benz MB502 diesels. They were originally ordered on 9 August (a week after ''S26'' to ''S29'') for the Chinese (Nationalist) Navy (the last two initially from Naglo, Berlin, but the contract was later switched to Lürssen), and were sequestered for use by the Kriegsmarine. As they were already under construction at the outbreak of war, they were mostly completed before the ''S26'' type boats.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
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| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S30''||Lürssen, Vegesack||10 September 1939||22 November 1939||Delivered to Allied forces at Ancona on 3 May 1945.
|-
| ''S31''||Lürssen, Vegesack||21 October 1939||28 December 1939||Sunk by mine off Malta on 10 May 1942
|-
| ''S32''||Lürssen, Vegesack||22 November 1939||15 March 1940||Sunk by mine off Dungeness on 21 June 1940.
|-
| ''S33''||Lürssen, Vegesack||23 November 1939||23 March 1940||Beached on [[Unije]] Island on 10 January 1945 and sunk by British ''MGB 698'' on 16 January.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 231">Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 231</ref>
|-
| ''S34''||Lürssen, Vegesack||29 February 1940||30 April 1940||Sunk by German Bf 109 following severe damage by coastal artillery at Valetta on 17 May 1942.
|-
| ''S35''||Lürssen, Vegesack||19 March 1940||19 May 1940||Sunk by mine northeast of [[Tabarka]] ([[Algeria]]) in the Mediterranean on 28 February 1943.<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 198-199</ref>
|-
| ''S36''||Lürssen, Vegesack||20 April 1940||14 June 1940||Damaged in collision with ''S61'' and paid off; delivered to Allied forces at Ancona on 3 May 1945.
|-
| ''S37''||Lürssen, Vegesack||15 May 1940||11 July 1940||Sunk by mine off Orfordness on 12 October 1940.
|-
|}
===1939 Orders===
24 more boats were ordered - all from Lürssen (''S44'' and ''S45'' were first scheduled to be built by Stettiner Oderwerk, but in the event all of this batch were contracted to Lürssen - on 24 September 1939. The pre-war Mobilisation New Construction Programme had called for 48 new boats per year, but this target was raised to 60 boats in September 1939 by the Naval War Staff. They called for a fleet level of 40 to 50 operational boats, with 16 being built annually as replacements. Sixteen were virtually identical with the ''S26'' type (measuring 34.94 m in length and with 20-cylinder MB501 diesels), other than simplified ventilators and other minor changes.<ref name="ReferenceA">ADM 223/28. ''German E-boat Operations and Policy 1939-1945'' (compiled in 1948 by the Foreign Documents Section of the Admiralty Tactical and Staff Duties Division - based on German war diaries and naval war staff records captured in 1945 - the ''Tambach Archive'').</ref> This design was to provide almost all of the ''Schnellboote'' built in Germany for the rest of the war.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S38''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1940||8 November 1940||Sunk by British destroyers 20 November 1940 in North Sea.
|-
| ''S39''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1940||16 January 1941||Sunk in British air attack on 2 August 1944 at Le Havre.
|-
| ''S40''||Lürssen, Vegesack||14 December 1940||22 April 1941||Sunk in Soviet air attack at [[Sulina]], Romania on 19 August 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 261"/>
|-
| ''S41''||Lürssen, Vegesack||9 January 1941||27 February 1941||Sunk in collision with ''S47'' on 19 November 1941.
|-
| ''S42''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1941||16 March 1941||Sunk in Soviet air attack at [[Constanta]], Romania on 23 August 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 261"/>
|-
| ''S43''||Lürssen, Vegesack||15 February 1941||28 March 1941||Sunk by mine on 27 June 1941
|-
| ''S44''||Lürssen, Vegesack||8 March 1941||19 April 1941||Sunk in British air attack at [[Kiel]] on 25 July 1943.
|-
| ''S45''||Lürssen, Vegesack||23 March 1941||26 April 1941||Scuttled off [[Varna, Bulgaria|Varna]] on 29 August 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 262"/>
|-
| ''S46''||Lürssen, Vegesack||7 April 1941||22 May 1941||Sunk in air attack on 10 September 1943
|-
| ''S47''||Lürssen, Vegesack||25 April 1941||13 June 1941||Scuttled off Varna on 29 August 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 262"/>
|-
| ''S48''||Lürssen, Vegesack||28 April 1941||120 June 1941||To Norway (as ''E4'') following end of war.
|-
| ''S49''||Lürssen, Vegesack||May 1941||11 July 1941||Scuttled off Varna on 29 August 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 262"/>
|-
| ''S50''||Lürssen, Vegesack||18 June 1941||25 July 1941||To USSR on 15 January 1946, renamed ''TK-1005''. Scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S51''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1 July 1941||8 August 1941||Scuttled off Varna on 29 August 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 262"/>
|-
| ''S52''||Lürssen, Vegesack||11 July 1941||23 August 1941||Sunk in Soviet air attack at [[Constanta]], Romania on 23 August 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 261"/>
|-
| ''S53''||Lürssen, Vegesack||30 July 1941||6 September 1941||Sunk in collision with ''S39'' on 20 February 1942.
|-
|}
While until this date all boats had been procured from Lürssen, but the German Navy had been seeking a second yard to add to its construction capacity, and on 25 September a contract for eight boats (numbered from ''S101'' to ''S108'') to the standard ''S26'' design was awarded to Schlichting-Werfk at Travemünde. This second builder was assigned a new series of numbers in the "101 range to distinguish them from the Lürssen boats.
{| class="wikitable" style="tet-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S101''||Schlichting, Travemünde||25 September 1940||30 November 1940||To USSR on 4 January 1946 as ''TK-1011'', scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S102''||Schlichting, Travemünde||6 November 1940||31 December 1940||Sunk by mine 8 July 1943 in the Kerch Strait.
|-
| ''S103''||Schlichting, Travemünde||21 December 1940||9 February 19412||Sunk by British air attack 4 May 1945 off Mommark.
|-
| ''S104''||Schlichting, Travemünde||18 February 1941||27 March 1941||Sunk by mine 9 January 1943 in the Channel.
|-
| ''S105''||Schlichting, Travemünde||22 March 1941||4 May 1941||To Britain 1945, sold 1947.
|-
| ''S106''||Schlichting, Travemünde||26 April 1941||6 June 1941||Sunk by mine 27 June 1941 in [[Gulf of Bothnia]].
|-
| ''S107''||Schlichting, Travemünde||31 May 1941||6 July 1941||To USA 1945, then to Denmark 1947 as ''T52'' (later ''Gribben''); scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S108''||Schlichting, Travemünde||28 June 1941||14 August 1941||Scrapped 1946.
|}
Following the outbreak of war, another eight boats were ordered from Lürssen on 14 November 1939 to the same ''Schnellboot 1939'' design as the ''S30'' group (measuring 32.76 m in length and with 16-cylinder MB502 diesels),
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S54''||Lürssen, Vegesack||11 June 1940||9 August 1940||Badly damaged by mine on 23 April 1944, scrapped 31 October 1944.
|-
| ''S55''||Lürssen, Vegesack||2 July 1940||23 August 1940||Sunk in air attack on 10 January 1944 in [[Vela Luka Bay]], [[Croatia]].
|-
| ''S56''||Lürssen, Vegesack||22 July 1940||20 September 1940||Sunk in air attack at Toulon on 24 November 1943; raised and broken up.
|-
| ''S57''||Lürssen, Vegesack||10 August 1940||30 September 1940||Sunk by British MTBs in the Adriatic on 19 August 1944.
|-
| ''S58''||Lürssen, Vegesack||10 September 1940||18 November 1940||Beached on Unije Island and sunk by British MGBs on 16 January 1945.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 231"/>
|-
| ''S59''||Lürssen, Vegesack||20 October 1940||27 November 1940||Sunk by air attack at [[Porto Empedocle]] (Sicily) on 6 July 1943.
|-
| ''S60''||Lürssen, Vegesack||22 October 1940||20 December 1940||Beached on Unije Island and sunk by British MGBs on 16 January 1945.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 231"/>
|-
| ''S61''||Lürssen, Vegesack||27 November 1940||1 February 1941||Surrendered to Allies at Ancona 3 May 1945
|-
|}
===1940 orders===
On 4 June 1940 a further batch of boats to the ''S26'' design was ordered. This comprised 8 boats from Lürssen (''S62'' to ''S69'') and 9 boats from Schlichting (''S109'' to ''S117''). ''S67'' introduced an improved design with a partially armour-plated cupola (the ''Kalotte'' or ''skull cap'') over the bridge, providing protection from weather as well as small arms fire, with a lower profile. From 1943 orders onwards, this armoured bridge became standard, and was also retro-fitted to many of the earlier boats. Various armaments were carried including 40&nbsp;mm Bofors or 20&nbsp;mm Flak aft, MG34 ''Zwillingsockel'' midships. <br>(Note the designation '38b' sometimes seen is not Kriegsmarine nomenclature and originated in a postwar American hobby publication).
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| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S62''||Lürssen, Vegesack||August 1941||19 September 1941||To Norway 1945, then to Britain; scrapped 1947.
|-
| ''S63''||Lürssen, Vegesack||27 August 1941||2 October 1941||Rammed and sunk 25 October 1943 off [[Cromer]].
|-
| ''S64''||Lürssen, Vegesack||September 1941||2 November 1941||To USA 1945, given to Norway 1947 as ''Lyn'', then to Denmark 1951 as ''Storfuglen'', scrapped 1965.
|-
| ''S65''||Lürssen, Vegesack||20 September 1941||16 June 1942||To USSR on 15 January 1946 as ''TK-1006'', scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S66''||Lürssen, Vegesack||6 October 1941||21 June 1942||Sunk by air attack by British at Kiel on 25 July 1943.
|-
| ''S67''||Lürssen, Vegesack||23 October 1941||19 March 1942||To Britain 1945, sold to Italy 1952 as ''MV 621'', scrapped 1966.
|-
| ''S68''||Lürssen, Vegesack||6 November 1941||1 July 1942||To USA 1945, given to Denmark 1947 as ''T62'', renamed ''Viben'' 1953, scrapped 1966.
|-
| ''S69''||Lürssen, Vegesack||24 November 1941||21 December 1941||To Britain 1945, scrapped 1947.
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S109''||Schlichting, Travemünde||14 August 1941||14 September 1941||To USSR 9n 4 January 1946 as ''TK-1012'', scrapped 1949.
|-
| ''S110''||Schlichting, Travemünde||13 September 1941||10 October 1941||To USSR on 15 January 1946 as ''TK-1013'', scrapped 1949.
|-
| ''S111''||Schlichting, Travemünde||18 October 1941||11 December 1941||Damaged in action 16 March 1942 in the North Sea, captured then recaptured and scuttled.
|-
| ''S112''||Schlichting, Travemünde||2 December 1941||28 January 1942||To France in 1945, scrapped 1951.
|-
| ''S113''||Schlichting, Travemünde||7 February 1942||14 March 1942|||To USSR on 5 November 1945 as ''TK-1014'', scrapped 1949.
|-
| ''S114''||Schlichting, Travemünde||14 March 1942||23 April 1942||Sunk in British air attack on 2 August 1944 at Le Havre.
|-
| ''S115''||Schlichting, Travemünde||10 April 1942||30 May 1942||To UK in 1945, fate unknown.
|-
| ''S116''||Schlichting, Travemünde||7 May 1842||4 July 1942|| Paid off after accident in Elbe estuary in January 1945; to Denmark in 1945; sold to Germany 1953, burnt by accident 1965.
|-
| ''S117''||Schlichting, Travemünde||13 June 1942||8 August 1942||To USA in 1945, then to Norway 1946 as ''B97'', later ''Tross''; sold 1951 to Denmark as ''Hejren'', scrapped 1965.
|}
Following the German occupation of France in June 1940, the Naval War Staff decided that 160 E-boats were now needed (comprising 26 flotillas), with 8 flotillas based in France and 6 each in Norway, the Baltic and the North Sea.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> On 26 August an additional four boats (''S70'' to ''S73'') were ordered from Lürssen, and in December Schlichting were given another order, this time for eight boats (''S118'' to ''S125''),
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S70''||Lürssen, Vegesack||15 November 1941||11 December 1941||Sunk by mine in the Channel 5 March 1943.
|-
| ''S71''||Lürssen, Vegesack||4 December 1941||11 January 1942||Sunk by British destroyers 18 February 1943 in the Channel.
|-
| ''S72''||Lürssen, Vegesack||18 December 1941||3 February 1942||Sunk in Soviet air attack at [[Sulina]], Romania on 19 August 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 261"/>
|-
| ''S73''||Lürssen, Vegesack||6 January 1942||19 February 1942||Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as ''LT23''.
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S118''||Schlichting Travemünde||30 July 1942||14 September 1942||To USSR on 14 January 1946 as ''TK-1015'', scrapped 1949.
|-
| ''S119''||Schlichting Travemünde||27 August 1942||22 October 1942||Scuttled after collision with ''S114'' on 8 March 1943 in the Channel.
|-
| ''S120''||Schlichting Travemünde||13 October 1942||5 December 1942|||To Britain 1945, scrapped 1947.
|-
| ''S121''||Schlichting Travemünde||28 November 1942||11 January 1943||Sunk in British air attack on 11 August 1943 at [[Aber Wrac'h|Aberwrac'h]].
|-
| ''S122''||Schlichting Travemünde||30 December 1942||21 February 1943||To USA in 1945; to Denmark 1947 as ''T64''; scrapped 1956.
|-
| ''S123''||Schlichting Travemünde||6 February 1943||19 March 1943|||To USSR on 4 January 1946 as ''TK-1016'', scrapped 1949.
|-
| ''S124''||Schlichting Travemünde||6 March 1943||15 April 1943||Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as ''LT21''.
|-
| ''S125''||Schlichting Travemünde||3 April 1943||16 May 1943||Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as ''LT25''.
|}
===1941 orders===
Another 40 boats were ordered in 1941, 16 from Lürssen on 3 January (numbered ''S74'' to ''S89''), another 16 from the same yard on 18 September (numbered ''S90'' to ''S100'' and from ''S134'' to ''S138'') and 8 from Schlichting at Travemünde (''S126'' to ''S133''), also on 18 September.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| ''S74''||Lürssen, Vegesack||12 February 1942||27 March 1942||Sunk by torpedo from ''S135'' on 5 November 1943 after being disabled in British air attack.
|-
| ''S75''||Lürssen, Vegesack||?February 1942||9 April 1942||Sunk by British air attack on 5 March 1943 at [[Ijmuiden]].
|-
| ''S76''||Lürssen, Vegesack||March 1942||1 May 1942||To USA 1945, given to Norway 1947, scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S77''||Lürssen, Vegesack||31 March 1942||9 May 1942||Sunk by gunfire 25 July 1943 in action off [[Ostend]] with British ''MGB40'' and ''MGB42''.
|-
| ''S78''||Lürssen, Vegesack||8 April 1942||3 June 1942||Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as ''LT24''.
|-
| ''S79''||Lürssen, Vegesack||22 April 1942||27 June 1942||To Norway 1945, given to Denmark 1947 as ''T58'', renamed ''Musvaagen'', scrapped 1955.
|-
| ''S80''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||10 July 1942||Sunk by mine off [[Viborg, Denmark|Viborg]] in the Baltic Sea on 1 September 1944.
|-
| ''S81''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||28 July 1942||To USSR on 4 January 1946 as ''TK-1001'', scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S82''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||21 August 1942||To USSR 15 January 1946 as ''TK-1008'', scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S83''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||7 September 1942||To Britain 1945, fate unknown.
|-
| ''S84''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||19 September 1942||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290">Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 289-290</ref>
|-
| ''S85''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||7 December 1942||To USA 1945, given to Norway as ''Storm''; sold to Denmark 1951 as ''Tranen'', sunk in collision 27 June 1963.
|-
| ''S86''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||15 October 1942||To USSR on 4 January 1946 as ''TK-1009'', scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S87''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||4 November 1942||Sunk in British air attack 20 May 1944 off [[Ostend]].
|-
| ''S88''||Lürssen, Vegesack||6 October 1942||20 November 1942||Sunk by gunfire from HMS ''Worcester'' and British MTBs on 25 October 1943 off [[Cromer]].
|-
| ''S89''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||28 November 1942||To Britain 1946, beached during transfer.
|-
| ''S90''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||10 December 1942||Beached on island of [[Bru, Rogaland]] on 17 July 1945.
|-
| ''S91''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||22 December 1942||Sunk 25 February 1944 by gunfire from HMS ''Retalick'' and ''Talybont'' in the Channel.
|-
| ''S92''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||14 January 1943||To Britain 1945, sold 1947.
|-
| ''S93''||Lürssen, Vegesack||17 December 1942||4 February 1943||Sunk in US air attack at Ijmuidden on 26 March 1944.
|-
| ''S94''||Lürssen, Vegesack||31 December 1942||18 February 1943||Scuttled after collision with ''S128'' on 23 February 1944.
|-
| ''S95''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1942||28 February 1943||To Britain 1945, sold 1949.
|-
| ''S96''||Lürssen, Vegesack||21 January 1943||11 March 1943||Scuttled after collision with British ''ML145'' on 25 September 1943 off [[Lowestoft]].
|-
| ''S97''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||25 March 1943||To USA 1945, given to Denmark 1947 as ''Ravnen'', scrapped 1963.
|-
| ''S98''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||10 April 1943||To USA 1945, given to Norway 1948 as ''Kvikk'', scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S99''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||17 April 1943|| To USSR on 4 January 1946 as ''TK-1010'', scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S100''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||5 May 1943||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S134''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||29 May 1943||Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as ''LT26''.
|-
| ''S135''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||29 May 1943||To USSR on 4 January 1946, becoming ''TK-1018''; scrapped 1952.
|-
| ''S136''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||10 June 1943||Sunk in action with HMCS ''Sioux'', HMS ''Duff'' and Polish ''Krakowiak'' east of Cape Barfleur on 11 June 1944.
|-
| ''S137''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||6 July 1943||Sunk by USAAF raid (by 8th Air Force B-17s) on Kiel on 29 July 1943.
|-
| ''S138''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||20 July 1943||Sunk during RAF raid on Le Havre on 15 June 1944; raised in August 1944 and scrapped.
|-
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S126''||Schlichting Travemünde||8 May 1843||12 June 1943||Sold to Spain on 16 August 1943 as ''LT26''.
|-
| ''S127''||Schlichting Travemünde||5 June 1943||10 July 1943|| To USA in 1945, then to Denmark 1947 as ''T56''; scrapped 1955.
|-
| ''S128''||Schlichting Travemünde||8 July 1943||27 August 1943||Scuttled after collision with ''S94'' on 23 February 1944
|-
| ''S129''||Schlichting Travemünde||12 August 1943||24 September 1943||Sunk in US air attack at Ijmuidden on 26 March 1944.
|-
| ''S130''||Schlichting Travemünde||18 September 1943||21 October 1943||To UK 1945, sold to Germany 1957 as ''UW10''. Still extant in UK.
|-
| ''S131''||Schlichting Travemünde||16 October 1943||5 January 1944||Sunk in Soviet air attack at [[Constanta]], Romania on 23 August 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 261"/>
|-
| ''S132''||Schlichting Travemünde||13 November 1943||10 December 1943||To USSR 1945, becoming ''TK-1017''; scrapped 1956.
|-
| ''S133''||Schlichting Travemünde||1943||31 December 1943||To USA at war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as ''T54'', scrapped 1955.
|}
===1942 orders===
Orders for a further 16 boats were given to Lürssen on 24 February 1942. The first 12 of these were numbered ''S139'' to ''S150''; the next sixteen numbers were allocated to construction at Schiedam in Holland, so the final four of the Lürssen batch were numbered ''S167'' to ''S170''.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched ||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S139''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||1 August 1943||Sunk by mine on 7 June 1944 off [[Barfleur]].
|-
| ''S140''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||7 August 1943||Sunk by mine on 7 June 1944 off Barfleur.
|-
| ''S141''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||20 August 1943||Sunk by French destroyer ''La Combattante'' off [[Selsey Bill]] on 13 May 1944.
|-
| ''S142''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||3 September 1943||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S143''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||17 September 1943||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S144''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||1 October 1943||Badly damaged by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944, and scrapped<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S145''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||8 October 1943||Damaged by air attack on Brest on 18 September 1944 and blown up.
|-
| ''S146''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||22 October 1943||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S147''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||5 November 1943||Sunk by French destroyer ''La Combattante'' off [[Cherbourg]] on 25 April 1944.
|-
| ''S148''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||5 January 1944||Sunk by mine off Dnetrr-Liman on 22 August 1944.
|-
| ''S149''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||5 January 1944||Scuttled at Constanta on 25 August 1944 after heavy damage in air attack.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 262"/>
|-
| ''S150''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||4 December 1943||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
|}
===''S151'' class===
Eight smaller torpedo boats were building for the Dutch Navy at Gusto Werf, [[Schiedam]] (near Rotterdam) as ''TM54'' to ''TM61'' inclusive. When Holland was occupied by the Germans, these were seized and completed (with some design modifications) by German and Dutch shipyard workers and renumbered as ''S151'' to ''S158''. They measured 28.3 x 4.46 metres (92&nbsp;ft 10in x 14&nbsp;ft 7in), displacing 57 tons. Originally the Germans planned to sell these to [[Bulgaria]], and they were formed as the new 7th S-flotilla in October 1941, but the Kriegsmarine's need for them in the Mediterranean had caused them to be sent south via the French inland waterways. They were authorised to transfer to the Mediterranean on 15 July 1942, and arrived there on 8 October, finally reaching [[Augusta, Sicily]] on 15 December, when they became operational.<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 194</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S151''||Gusto Werf, Schiedam||19 December 1941||Badly damaged off Korkula by British destroyere on 11 July 1944; surrendered to Allies at Ancona 3 May 1945.
|-
| ''S152''||Gusto Werf, Schiedam||31 March 1942||Surrendered to Allies at Ancona 3 May 1945.
|-
| ''S153''||Gusto Werf, Schiedam||19 April 1942||Sunk by HMS ''Eggesford'' and ''Blackmore'' off [[Hvar]] 12 June 1944.<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 223</ref>
|-
| ''S154''||Gusto Werf, Schiedam||10 June 1942||Sunk by bombing at Pola 22 January 1945
|-
| ''S155''||Gusto Werf, Schiedam||19 July 1942||Surrendered to Allies at Ancona 3 May 1945
|-
| ''S156''||Gusto Werf, Schiedam||5 September 1942||Surrendered to Allies at Ancona 3 May 1945
|-
| ''S157''||Gusto Werf, Schiedam||8 September 1942||Sunk by Yogoslav mortar fire west of Trieste 1 May 1945
|-
| ''S158''||Gusto Werf, Schiedam||9 September 1942||Disabled by British air attack at Sibenik 25 October 1944, then scuttled on 26 or 27 October.<ref>Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 229</ref>
|-
|}
Eight further vessels had been intended by the Dutch Navy as ''TM62'' to ''TM70'', and material had been collected for their construction at Schiedam. They were cancelled with the German occupation in May 1940; they were re-ordered (as ''S159'' to ''S166'') from Gusto Werf on 11 July 1941, but construction of these stopped in April 1942.
Continuation of ''S139'' batch
All these were part of the order placed on 24 February 1942, and the first three were identical to ''S139'' batch. However the final boat, ''S170'', was the prototype (along with ''S228'' at Travemünde) for the final series of boats ordered in December 1943 (few of which were completed) with the first MB518 engines of 3,000&nbsp;hp for evaluation; her details were the same as for that final series of orders.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S167''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||17 December 1943||Sank in the [[Scheldt]] Estuary on 25 February 1945 after collision 22 February.
|-
| ''S168''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||23 December 1943||To UK 1945, scrapped 1947.
|-
| ''S169''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||3 January 1944||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S170''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||11 February 1944||Blown up in [[Lubeck]] on 3 May 1945.
|}
===1943 orders===
Needing to increase production, orders for two batches of vessels were placed during the first half of 1943, totalling sixty boats. An order for sixteen boats was placed with Lürssen's yard on 15 January 1943 (''S171'' to ''S186''), and another order for eight boats with Schlichting at Travemünde on the same day (''S187'' to ''S194''). On 7 May another batch was ordered from the same builders - twenty-four from Lürssen (''S195'' to ''S218'') and twelve from Schlichting (''S219'' to ''S230''), although the final two from the Schlichting order were seemingly deferred, to be re-included in the much larger order placed in December.
Like the ''S139'' batch, almost all of these were a metre longer than the original ''S26'' class in order to have room to fit the new supercharged MB511 engines. The sole exception was ''S228'' - the final boat from this batch to be completed at Travemünde, which was that yard's prototype for the final mass series which were ordered in December 1943, built to carry the new MB518 diesels, and was thus the equivalent test-bed at that yard to ''S170'' from Lürssen. All the other 57 boats completed from this batch had MB 511 diesels fitted.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S171''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||22 January 1944||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S172''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||18 February 1944||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S173''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||25 February 1944||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S174''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1943||3 March 1944||To USA in 1945; given to Norway 1947 as ''Rapp'', scrapped 1953.
|-
| ''S175''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||11 March 1944||To USSR 1945, becoming ''TK-1019''; scrapped 1952.
|-
| ''S176''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||17 March 1944||Scuttled after ramming British ''MTB494'' on 7 April 1945.
|-
| ''S177''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||30 March 1944||Scuttled after ramming British ''MTB493'' on 7 April 1945.
|-
| ''S178''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||6 April 1944||Sunk by British air attack off Boulogne on 13 June 1944.
|-
| ''S179''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||19 April 1944||Sunk by British air attack off Boulogne on 13 June 1944.
|-
| ''S180''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||28 April 1944||Sunk by mine off Hook of Holland on 14 January 1945.
|-
| ''S181''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||5 May 1944||Sunk by British air attack off Den Helder on 21 March 1945
|-
| ''S182''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||12 May 1944||Sunk in collision with British ''MTB430'' in the Channel on 27 July 1944.
|-
| ''S183''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||19 May 1944||Sunk by gunfire from HMS ''Stayner'' off Dunkirk on 19 September 1944.
|-
| ''S184''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||28 May 1944||Damaged by gunfire from British coastal battery off Dover on 5 September 1944 and scuttled.
|-
| ''S185''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||3 June 1944||Sunk by gunfire from British escorts off Ostend on 23 December 1944.
|-
| ''S186''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||23 June 1944||Sunk at Wilhelmhaven by British bombing 30 March 1945.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 311">Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 311</ref>
|-
| ''S187''||Schlichting Travemünde||31 December 1943||10 February 1944||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S188''||Schlichting Travemünde||6 February 1944||1 March 1944||Sunk by British air attack on Le Havre on 14 June 1944.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 289-290"/>
|-
| ''S189''||Schlichting Travemünde||6 March 1944||31 March 1944||Sunk by British air attack off Boulogne on 13 June 1944.
|-
| ''S190''||Schlichting Travemünde||30 March 1944||22 April 1944||Sunk by gunfire from British ships in Seine Estuary on 23 June 1944.
|-
| ''S191''||Schlichting Travemünde||22 April 1944||18 May 1944||Scuttled 4 May 1945 in Fehmannsound after collision with ''S301''.
|-
| ''S192''||Schlichting Travemünde||13 May 1944||7 June 1944||Sunk by gunfire from British escorts off Ostend on 23 December 1944.
|-
| ''S193''||Schlichting Travemünde||6 June 1944||28 June 1944||Sunk by gunfire from British escorts in North Sea on 22 February 1945.
|-
| ''S194''||Schlichting Travemünde||23 June 1944||19 July 1944||Sunk at Wilhelmhaven by British bombing 30 March 1945.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 311"/>
|-
| ''S195''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||28 June 1944||To USA at war's end, given to Norwegian Navy 1945 as ''Kjekk'', scrapped 1956.
|-
| ''S196''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||3 July 1944||To UK a war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as ''Raalgen'' (''T59''), scrapped 1958 after 1951 collision.
|-
| ''S197''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||10 July 1944||To USA at war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as ''Lommen'', scrapped 1972.
|-
| ''S198''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||15 July 1944||Sunk in British air attack at Ijmuiden on 15 December 1944.
|-
| ''S199''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||21 July 1944||Scuttled after collision with ''S701'' on 23 January 1945.
|-
| ''S200''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||3 August 1944||Sunk by gunfire from British escorts off Dunkirk on 19 September 1944.
|-
| ''S201''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||28 July 1944||Scuttled at Kiel on 3 May 1945 after air attack damage.
|-
| ''S202''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||8 August 1944||Sunk in collision with ''S703'' on 8 April 1945 in the [[Scheldt]] approaches in action with British MGBs.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 312">Lawrence Paterson, ''Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History'', p. 312</ref>
|-
| ''S203''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||13 August 1944||Scuttled off Lindesne after collision with ''R220'' on 10 November 1944.
|-
| ''S204''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||19 August 1944||To USSR 1945, becoming ''TK-1020''; scrapped 1954.
|-
| ''S205''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||28 August 1944||To UK in 1945, scrapped 1946.
|-
| ''S206''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||31 August 1944||To USA at war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as ''Hoegen'' (''T55''), scrapped 1957 after collision.
|-
| ''S207''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||19 September 1944||To UK at war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as ''Skaden'' (''T61''), scrapped 1960.
|-
| ''S208''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||28 September 1944||To USA at war's end, given to Germany 1957, scrapped 1967.
|-
| ''S209''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||21 October 1944||To USSR in 1945, renamed ''TK-1021''; scrapped 1954.
|-
| ''S210''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||27 September 1944||To USA at war's end, given to Norwegian Navy 1947 as ''Snar'', scrapped 1950.
|-
| ''S211''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||1 October 1944||To USSR on 15 January 1946, renamed ''TK-1022''; scrapped 1954.
|-
| ''S212''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||11 October 1944||To UK in 1945, scrapped 1957.
|-
| ''S213''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||7 January 1945||To UK in 1945, scrapped 1945.
|-
| ''S214''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||8 December 1944||To USSR on 4 January 1946, renamed ''TK-1023''; scrapped 1954.
|-
| ''S215''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||1 December 1944||To UK in 1945, scrapped 1948.
|-
| ''S216''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||27 December 1944||To USA at war's end, given to Denmark 1947 as ''Havoarnen'' (''T53''), scrapped 1957.
|-
| ''S217''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||30 January 1945||To UK in 1945, scrapped 1948.
|-
| ''S218''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||18 January 1945||To USA in 1945, fate unknown.
|-
| ''S219''||Schlichting Travemünde||11 July 1944||9 August 1944||To USSR on 15 January 1946, renamed ''TK-1024''; scrapped 1957.
|-
| ''S220''||Schlichting Travemünde||9 August 1944||27 August 1944||Badly damaged in action 1 March 1945 and scuttled.
|-
| ''S221''||Schlichting Travemünde||16 August 1944||10 September 1944||To UK 1945. Scrapped 1948.
|-
| ''S222''||Schlichting Travemünde||31 August 1944||23 September 1944||To USSR on 4 January 1946, renamed ''TK-1025''. Scrapped 1953.
|-
| ''S223''||Schlichting Travemünde||14 September 1944||29 October 1944||Sunk by mine off [[Ostend]] on 8 April 1945.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 312"/>
|-
| ''S224''||Schlichting Travemünde||1944||17 November 1944||Sunk at Wilhelmhaven by British bombing 30 March 1945.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 311"/>
|-
| ''S225''||Schlichting Travemünde||1944||1 December 1944||To USA 1945, fate unknown
|-
| ''S226''||Schlichting Travemünde||1944||27 February 1945||Sunk in air attack 6 May 1945
|-
| ''S227''||Schlichting Travemünde||1944||1944 or 1945||To USSR 1945, renamed ''TK-1026''. Scrapped 1949.
|-
| ''S228''||Schlichting Travemünde||1944||19 April 1945||To UK 1945. Scrapped 1946.
|-
|}
The final batch ordered on 4 December 1943 comprised a massive total of 282 units - ''S229'' to ''S260'' (32 boats) from Schlichting; ''S301'' to ''S425'' (125 boats) from Lürssen; and ''S701'' to ''S825'' (125 boats) from Danziger Waggon at [[Danzig]]. The first four of the Schlichting boats (''S229'' to ''S230'') were completed by April 1945 but not placed into service; these were presumably broken up in the shipyard following the cessation of hostilities. Of the projected numbers from the other two builders only the first five from Lürssen and 9 from Danzig were completed. Another seven were launched but not completed; these were scuttled in the North Sea, while fourteen more were scrapped in the Lürssen shipyard (''S308'' to ''S328'') and others at Travemünde and Danzig. The remainder were all cancelled.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S301''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||31 January 1945||Scuttled 7 May 1945 in Fehmannsound after collision with ''S191''.
|-
| ''S302''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||12 February 1945||To USA at end of war, then became Norwegian ''E1'' in July 1947, renamed ''Blink'' in 1948; sold to Denmark 1951 as ''Falken'', scrapped 1972.
|-
| ''S303''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||24 February 1945||To USA at end of war, then became Norwegian ''E2'' in July 1946, renamed ''Brand'' in 1948; sold to Denmark 1950 as ''Taarnfalken'', scrapped 1972.
|-
| ''S304''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||9 March 1945||To UK in 1945; scrapped 1946.
|-
| ''S305''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||29 March 1945||To USA in 1945, then became to Denmark on 31 July 1947 as ''T57'', later named ''Jagtfalken'', scrapped 1962.
|-
| ''S306''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||April 1945 <br>(incomplete)||To USA in 1945, then to Denmark on 31 July 1947 as ''Glenten'', scrapped 1960.
|-
| ''S307''||Lürssen, Vegesack||1944||April 1945 <br>(incomplete)||To UK in 1945, then scrapped.
|-
|}
===''S501'' class===
These small ex-Italian Navy boats of the Baglietto fast type (or ''MAS526'' type) were taken over by the Germans in the Black Sea on 20 May 1943.<ref name="Aldo Fraccaroli 1968"/> The first seven of these measured 18.7 x 4.7 x 1.5 m (61&nbsp;ft 4in x 15&nbsp;ft 5in x 4&nbsp;ft 11in) and displaced 25.2 tons (29.4 tons full load). These 2-shaft boats were driven by 2 Isotta-Fraschini petrol engines of 2,000&nbsp;hp to reach 42 knots. They carried two 450mm torpedoes plus one MG or 20mm gun, and 6 depth charges, with a crew of 10. All 7 were transferred to the Romania in August 1943, but seized by the USSR on 5 September 1943.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number|| Ex-Italian ||Builder||Launched||Fate
|-
| ''S501''||ex MAS 566||Baglietto, [[Varazze]]||20 June 1941||Sunk in Black Sea 1944
|-
| ''S502''||ex MAS 567||Basglietto, Varazze||20 July 1941||Sunk in Black Sea 1944
|-
| ''S503''||ex MAS 568||Basglietto, Varazze||11 August 1941||Sunk in Black Sea 1944
|-
| ''S504''||ex MAS 569||Basglietto, Varazze||8 September 1941||Sunk in Black Sea 1944
|-
| ''S505''||ex MAS 570||Basglietto, Varazze||20 September 1941||Sunk in Black Sea 1944
|-
| ''S506''||ex MAS 574||Celli, [[Venice]]||1941||Sunk at Constanta on 25 August 1944
|-
| ''S507''||ex MAS 575||Celli, Venice||1941||Sunk in Black Sea 1944
|-
| ''S508''||ex MAS 525||[[Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico|CRDA]], [[Monfalcone]]|| ||
|-
| ''S509''||ex MAS 549||CRDA, Monfalcone|| 1939||Sunk (as ''SA 12'') at Imperia on 24 April 1945
|-
| ''S510''||ex MAS 551||CRDA, Monfalcone|| 1941||Sunk (as ''SA 13'') at Imperia on 24 April 1945
|-
| ''S511''||ex MAS 557||Picchiotti, [[Limite sull'Arno]]||7 March 1941||Sunk by British air attack on 4 December 1944
|-
| ''S512''||ex MAS 553||CRDA, Monfalcone||10 May 1941||Sunk (as ''SA 14'') at Imperia on 24 April 1945
|-
|}
===''S601'' class===
Further small ex-Italian Navy boats of the Baglietto fast type (of various classes)<ref name="Aldo Fraccaroli 1968"/> were taken over by the Germans.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number|| Ex-Italian ||Built||Launched||Fate
|-
| ''S601''||ex MAS 542||[[Venice]]||5 July 1939||Sunk in Aegean by air attack 1944.
|-
| ''S602''||ex MAS 430||Venice||1929||Scuttled 1944 at Sebenico.
|-
| ''S603''||ex MAS 431||[[Varazze]]||1931||Sunk November 1943 at Zara-Sebenico.
|-
| ''S604''||ex MAS 423||Venice||March 1929||Sunk in 1944 in the Adriatic.
|-
| ''S621''||ex MAS 561||Varazze||4 February 1941||Sunk (as ''SA 16'') near Imperia on 24 April 1945
|-
| ''S622''||ex MAS 550||Monfalcone||23 September 1939||Sunk (as ''SA 21'') in air attack at Monfalcone on 14 March 1944.
|-
| ''S623''||ex MAS 554||Monfalcone||20 May 1941||Scuttled (as ''SA 20'') at Trieste on 1 May 1945; refloated and scrapped
|-
| ''S624''||ex MAS 424||Varasse||24 October 1937||Sunk (as ''SA 17'') in air attack at Monfalcone on 14 March 1944.
|-
| ''S625''||ex MAS 437||Venice||1934||Sunk (as ''SA 18'') in May 1945
|-
| ''S626''||ex MAS 502||Varazze||24 April 1936||Sunk by German artillery off La Spezia March 1944
|-
| ''S627''||ex MAS 504||Varazze||24 August 1936||Sunk off Anzio by HMS ''Grenville'' on 25 March 1944.
|-
| ''S628''||ex MAS 505||Varazze|| 19 February 1937||Sunk (as ''SA 19'') at Genoa in May 1945
|-
| ''S629''||ex MAS 558||Venice||1940||Scuttled (as ''SA 15'') near Imperia on 24 April 1945.
|-
| ''S630''||
|-
|}
===''S700'' class===
Late war design proposal with stern torpedo tubes and 30&nbsp;mm gun turret forward. These were intended to be slightly larger, of prefabricated construction, and to be propelled by the supercharged MB518 engines. They were to have carried two stern-firing torpedo tubes in addition to the usual two bow tubes, with a special 30mm gun in a bow turret. These were ordered from Danziger Waggonfabrik at Danzig on 4 December 1943 as ''S701'' to ''S825'' (125 boats), but only the first nine boats were built, and these were completed to ''S100'' design specification with MB511 diesel engines after the production of the MB518 engine was cancelled due to Allied bombing. The other boats were cancelled or scrapped unfinished in the shipyard.
[[File:SCHNELLBOOTE 701.jpg|thumb|right|Schnellboot ''S701'' in April 1945. This torpedo boat was part of the 8th flotilla based in Ijmuiden. The ''S701'' had been delivered to the Kriegsmarine in July, 1944. It was surrendered to the U.S. Navy in 1945 and then sold to the Dutch Navy.]]
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Launched||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''S701''||Danziger Waggonfabrik||1944||3 July 1944||Badly damaged on 23 January 1945 in collision with ''S199''; <br>to USA 1945, then sold to Netherlands Navy 1951
|-
| ''S702''||Danziger Waggonfabrik||1944||30 July 1944||Sunk in action with British MTBs on 19 September 1944 after collision with ''S200''.
|-
| ''S703''||Danziger Waggonfabrik||1944||30 August 1944||Sunk after collision with ''S202'' on 8 April 1945 in the [[Scheldt]] approaches in action with British MGBs.<ref name="Lawrence Paterson p. 312"/>
|-
| ''S704''||Danziger Waggonfabrik||1944||2 October 1944||To USSR on 15 January 1946 as ''TK-1027'', scrapped 1949
|-
| ''S705''||Danziger Waggonfabrik||1944||22 October 1944||To UK on 4 January 1946, scrapped 1947.
|-
| ''S706''||Danziger Waggonfabrik||1944||31 October 1944||To USA on 30 January 1947, fate unknown.
|-
| ''S707''||Danziger Waggonfabrik||1944||4 December 1944||To USSR on 15 January 1946 as ''TK-1028'', scrapped 1949.
|-
| ''S708''||Danziger Waggonfabrik||1944||19 February 1945||To USSR on 15 January 1946 as ''TK-1029'', scrapped 1954.
|-
| ''S709''||Danziger Waggonfabrik||1944||1945||To USSR on 29 March 1946 as ''TK-1030'', scrapped 1949.
|-
|}
In the 1944 Programme it was intended to increase production of E-boats to deliver 150 boats per annum, but this level was never achieved. In November 1944 there were 292 boats on order, of which 138 were under construction, usually awaiting delivery of the new MB518 engines, while the other 154 boats were unstarted. Eventually, as the ability to provide engines increased, only 19 of the 138 boats were actually completed.
===KS-boats (''Kleinst Schnellboote''), originally KM-series (''Küstenminenleger'')===
A class of small fast attack craft designed as offensive mine-layers (rated ''Küstenminenleger''), able to carry up to 4 mines, and to operate close to enemy shores. They measured 15.95 x 3.50 x 1.10 m (52&nbsp;ft 4in x 11&nbsp;ft 6in x 3&nbsp;ft 7in); 15/16 tonnes standard (18/19 tonnes full load). Powered by 2 BMW MB507 12-cylinder aero engines producing 1,650&nbsp;hp (32 knots), although four boats (nos. 1, 2, 5 and 6) had two Junkers 4-cylinder diesels of 1,500&nbsp;hp to produce speeds of 30/40.9 knots; radius 225 miles at 25 knots. A total of 36 were ordered (most on 29 and 31 July 1940, but ''KM1'' to ''KM4'' were ordered on 26 August, and ''KM25'' and ''KM26'' on 11 October 1940), but as their engines proved unreliable, they were not used in their intended role and instead most were employed in lakes and rivers, being attached to the [[Lake Peipus|Peipusee]] Flotilla (''KM3'' to the [[Lake Ladoga|Ladogasee]] Flotilla). As minelayers they carried four TMB mines and a single Mg39 gun, plus a crew of 6. 21 boats were equipped with 2 x 450mm fixed stern torpedo tubes replkacing the mines, and were reclassed as '''KS-boats''' (''Kleinst Schnellboote''), retaining their original numberss but replacing the "KM" prefix by "KS".
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Commissioned||Reclassed as ''KS''||Fate
|-
| ''KS1''||Nordbjaerg & Wedell, [[Copenhagen]]||18 December 1941||February 1944||To Finland in 1942; sunk 2 July 1944 but raised; to USSR 1945, fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS2''||Nordbjaerg & Wedell, Copenhagen||18 December 1941||February 1944||To Finland in 1942; to USSR 1945, fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS9''||Engelbrecht, [[Berlin]]||February 1943||October 1943||Destroyed on 18 September 1944.
|-
| ''KS10''||Engelbrecht, Berlin||February 1943||December 1943||Destroyed on 18 September 1944.
|-
| ''KS11''||Engelbrecht, Berlin||March 1943||March 1943||Given to Croatian Navy in October 1944, fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS12''||Engelbrecht, Berlin||1943||December 1943||Destroyed on 18 September 1944.
|-
| ''KS13''||Engelbrecht, Berlin||1943||December 1943||Fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS14''||Engelbrecht, Berlin||1943||December 1943||Fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS15''||Engelbrecht, Berlin||1943||December 1943||Fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS16''||Kreigermann, Berlin-Pichelsdorf||December 1941||December 1943||Destroyed on 18 September 1944.
|-
| ''KS17''||Kreigermann, Berlin-Pichelsdorf||17 July 1942||March 1943||Given to Croatian Navy in October 1944, fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS18''||Kreigermann, Berlin-Pichelsdorf||17 July 1942||March 1943||Given to Croatian Navy in September 1944, fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS20''||Reinickewerft, Berlin-Pichelsdorf||17 July 1942||December 1943||Sunk on 5 September 1044 after fire.
|-
| ''KS21''||Kreigermann, Berlin-Pichelsdorf||21 July 1942||1943||Given to Croatian Navy in September 1944, fate unknown
|-
| ''KS22''||Nordbjaerg & Wedell, Copenhagen||9 June 1942||1943||To Finland in 1942; to USSR 1945, fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS23''||Rob. Franz Niederfehme||17 July 1942||1943||Given to Croatian Navy in December 1944; fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS24''||Rob. Franz Niederfehme||17 July 1942||1943||Given to Croatian Navy in December 1944; fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS25''||Rob. Franz Niederfehme||12 December 1942||1943||Fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS26''||Rob. Franz Niederfehme||February 1943||1943||Fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS31''||Nordbjaerg & Wedell, Copenhagen||February 1943||1943||Given to Croatian Navy in September 1944, fate unknown.
|-
| ''KS32''||Nordbjaerg & Wedell, Copenhagen||February 1943||1943||Given to Croatian Navy in September 1944, fate unknown.
|-
|}
Of the unreclassified boats, ''KM27'' to ''KM30'' were all sunk by Soviet aircraft in the Gulf of Bothnia during 1943.
===LS-boats (''Leichte Schnellboote'')===
Another class of even smaller fast attack boat, not intended to operate independently, but to be based on auxiliary cruisers or other vessels operating in overseas areas. They measured 12.50 x 3.46 x 1.02 m (41&nbsp;ft x 11&nbsp;ft 4in x 3&nbsp;ft 4in). These 2-shaft boats weighed 11.5 - 13 tons. The first six were powered by two Junkers 6-cyl JuMo205 aircraft engines, they reached 38 knots. Later boats had two Daimler-Benz MB507 12-cyl diesels of 2,000&nbsp;hp reaching 40.9 knots, and with an endurance of 300 miles at 30 knots. They carried two 450mm torpedo tubes (instead of up to 4 mines), but had depth charges and a single 20mm MG (in an enclosed turret), plus 7 men. A total of 34 of these boats were ordered, the prototype from Naglo Werft, Berlin, and all the others from Dornier Werft, [[Friedrichshafen]], but the prototype was not completed and only the next eleven were completed; another six (''LS13'' to ''LS18'') were taken over by France incomplete following the war's end, and completed for them; the final 16 (''LS19'' to ''LS34'') were cancelled in 1944.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| Number||Builder||Commissioned||Fate
|-
| ''LS1''||Naglo Werft||Launched 1940||Never completed as the boat's hull was found to be too heavy.
|-
| ''LS2''||Dornier Werft||14 June 1940||Used aboard commerce raider ''Komet''; scuttled on 23 December 1940.
|-
| ''LS3''||Dornier Werft||14 October 1940||Used aboard commerce raider ''Kormoran''; destroyed on 20 November 1941.
|-
| ''LS4''||Dornier Werft||5 July 1941||Used aboard commerce raider ''Michel''; destroyed on 17 October 1943.
|-
| ''LS5''||Dornier Werft||15 October 1941||Used as escort vessel in the [[Aegean Sea]]; sunk off [[Kos]] in air attack on 2 November 1943.
|-
| ''LS6''||Dornier Werft||15 October 1941|||Used as escort vessel in the [[Aegean Sea]]; sunk in air attack on 25 September 1943
|-
| ''LS7''||Dornier Werft||8 October 1943||Grounded on 14 October 1944 off [[Grado, Friuli-Venezia Giulia|Grado]].
|-
| ''LS8''||Dornier Werft||20 December 1943||Destroyed by own crew on 21 September 1944 in Phaleron Harbour (Piraeus).
|-
| ''LS9''||Dornier Werft||20 January 1944||Destroyed by own crew on 21 September 1944 in Phaleron Harbour (Piraeus).
|-
| ''LS10''||Dornier Werft||27 January 1944||Sunk by aircraft on 14 October 1944 off [[Volos]].
|-
| ''LS11''||Dornier Werft||18 May 1944||Destroyed by own crew on 21 September 1944 in Phaleron Harbour (Piraeus).
|-
| ''LS12''||Dornier Werft||12 July 1944||To USSR in 1945, and scrapped.
|-
|}
Source: https://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/index.html
== See also ==
* [[Daimler-Benz DB 602]], V-16 diesel aero-engine that was developed into the MB502 and MB501.
* [[Fast Attack Craft War Badge]]
* [[List of Knight's Cross recipients of the Schnellboot service]]
* [[R boat]]
* [[Steam gun boat]]
== Notes ==
{{Reflist|30em}}
== References ==
* {{cite journal |last1=Bellars |first1=Robert A. |last2=Freivogel |first2=Zvonimir |year=2010 |title=Question 24/46: German E-Boats Based in Sicily |journal=Warship International |volume=XLVII |issue=3 |pages=204–208 |issn=0043-0374 |name-list-style=amp}}
* {{cite book | title=German S-boote at War, 1939–1945 |last=Dallies-Labourdette |first=Jean Philippe |publisher=Histoire and Collections |date=June 2003 |isbn=2-913903-49-5}}
* {{cite book |title=Schnellboot in Action |edition=2nd (Warships) |last=Krakow |first=David |publisher=Squadron/Signal Publications |date=August 2013 | isbn=978-0-89747-660-7}}
* {{cite book |title=Schnellboot in Action (Warships) |last1=Krakow |first1= David |last2=Connelly |first2=Garth |publisher=Squadron/Signal Publications |date=January 2003 |isbn=0-89747-457-0 |name-list-style=amp}}
* {{cite book | title=Ships Of Canada's Naval Forces (Warships) |last=Macpherson |first=Ken |year=1981 |publisher=Collins Publications |isbn=0-00-216856-1}}
* {{cite book |last=Margaritis |first=Peter |title=Countdown to D-Day: The German Perspective |year= 2019 |publisher=Casemate |location=Oxford, UK & PA, USA |isbn= 978-1-61200-769-4}}
* {{cite book |title=E-boat vs MTB: The English Channel 1941–45 |publisher=Osprey |last=Williamson |first=Gordon |year=2011 |location=Oxford; Long Island City |isbn=978-1-84908-407-9}}
* {{cite book |title=German E-boats 1939–45 |last1=Williamson |first1=Gordon |author-link=Gordon Williamson (writer) |last2=Palmer |first2=Ian |publisher=Osprey |date=September 18, 2002 |isbn=1-84176-445-0}}
== External links ==
{{commons category|S-Boot}}
* [http://www.rovcom.co.uk/s130_ww2_schnellboot.htm World War II Schnellboot, or E-boat]
* [http://www.prinzeugen.com/SBOATIND.htm Prinz Eugen E-boat site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905063406/http://www.prinzeugen.com/SBOATIND.htm |date=2009-09-05 }}
* [http://www.pt-boat.com/sboot/sboot.html John Drain's model E-boat site]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061024034801/http://www.thamesvalleypod.tv/tvall.php?tv=3 Five part video podcast documentary about S130 on www.pod3.tv]
* {{cite web | url = http://www.bmpt.org.uk/boats/S130/index6.htm | title = British Military Powerboat Trust}}
* [http://www.s-boot.net/englisch/sboats-kriegsmarine.html Die Schnellboot-Seite, "S-Boats in the Kriegsmarine"]
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