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S18 torpedo boats (1938 - 1939)


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S22  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
S18   12755 Lürssen, Vegesack   13.1.1938 7.1938 tug Herold 2.1943
S19   12760 Lürssen, Vegesack   10.5.1938 10.1938 surrendered 5.1945, to United Kingdom 1945, target
S20   12761 Lürssen, Vegesack   1.10.1938 3.1939 surrendered 5.1945, to United Kingdom 1945, sold
S21   12762 Lürssen, Vegesack   1.8.1938 12.1938 surrendered 5.1945, to USA 1945, to Norway 1947, BU
S22   12763 Lürssen, Vegesack   31.1.1939 5.1939 TS 1.1945, surrendered 5.1945?
S23   12764 Lürssen, Vegesack   23.4.1939 7.1939 sunk 12.7.1940
S24   12766 Lürssen, Vegesack   4.7.1939 9.1939 surrendered 5.1945, to USSR 1.1946 (ТК-1004 [TK-1004])
S25   12790 Lürssen, Vegesack   19.9.1939 12.1939 surrendered 5.1945, to United Kingdom 1945, sold


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

92,5
Displacement full, t105
Length, m

34.6
Breadth, m

5.26
Draught, m

1.67
No of shafts

3
Machinery

3 Daimler-Benz MB501 diesels
Power, h. p.

6000
Max speed, kts

39.8
Fuel, tdiesel oil 13,3
Endurance, nm(kts)700(35)
Armament

1 x 1 - 20/65 C/30, 2 - 533 TT (4)
Complement20 - 23


Standard scale images


<i>S18</i> 1939
S18 1939


Graphics


<i> S22</i>  
S22  


Project history

Torpedo motorboats (Schnellboote) were the development of successful prototype created by F. Lürssen in 1929. General characteristic lines for all series were round-bilge hull with small deadrise, triple-shaft diesel machinery, presence of two auxiliary rudders for creation of "Lürssen effect" (fitting of rudders under an angle to centreline for speed increase) and a bow arrangement of two TTs. Composite hull included light alloy framing, wooden planking and steel engine seating.

Modernizations

1941, most survived: - 1 x 1 - 20/65; + 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38

1942 - 1943, all survived: + 6 DCs or mines

late 1942, some: - 1 x 1 - 20/65; + 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30 or 1 x 1 - 40/56 FlaK 28

1943, some: - 1 x 1 - 20/65; + 1 x 2 - 20/65 C/38 or 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38 or 1 x 2 - 15/84

Naval service

2 boats of S18 class were lost: S18 5.5.1945 was sunk by British aircraft at coast of Denmark; S23 12.7.1940 was mined in La Manche. S24 on reparations was transferred to the USSR.