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Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
VS8 Schell I, 9	Sachsenberg, Hamburg: VS8, 9	6/1944: VS8	incomplete: VS9 VS8 (9/1944)	none	none

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	70
Displacement full, t	98
Length, m	31.9
Breadth, m	8.08 wl 10.3 max
Draught, m	2.00 mean 4.25 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Daimler-Benz MB501 diesels
Power, h. p.	3660
Max speed, kts	45
Fuel, t	diesel oil 8.5
Endurance, nm(kts)	200(45)
Armament	4 x 1 - 15/84
Military load	1 Pz III or Pz IV tank on landing lighter (6.5 t, 12.5 x 3.91 x 1.70 m, 2 shafts, 80 hp)
Complement	22

Standard scale images

Project history

Landing hydrofoil ordered by Army and laid down under naval control. In August, 1941 order was transferred to Kriegsmarine.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.