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Schnellboot 1939

Schnellboote  Schnellboot 1939  Class

   History   Ships   Technical Data   1:1250 Model 

Schnellboot of the Schnellboot 1939 Series


Because if the limited construction capacity of the 20 cylinder Mercedes Benz Engines, a class of 16 fast attack boats, the Schnellboot 1939 , was equipped with the less powerful 16 cylinder engines. Because of that, those boats did not archive the high speed of the other German fast attack boats, which made them even more vulnerable than the other boats.

The Schnellboot 1939 had slightly smaller dimensions than the other fast attack boats - which favored them to be relocated to the Mediterranean via the Rhine and Rhone rivers. In 1941 and 1942, all of the remaining boats of this class sent to the Mediterranean this way. There most of them got lost, mainly because of mine hits. Only three of them survived the war and surrendered to allied forces in May 1945.


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