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Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
PiLB501 - 530; PiLB531, 1946 - LCM531; PiLB532 - 655	Bodanwerft, Kressbronn: PiLB501 - 545 Kremer, Elshorn: PiLB546 - 560, 596 - 625 Heyking, Danzig: PiLB561 - 570, 626 - 635 Aussiger Schiffswerft: PiLB571 - 576, 636 - 655 Braun, Speyer: PiLB577 - 583 Weichselwerft, Schröttersburg: PiLB584 - 589 Schlesier Dampfer-Co., Glogau: PiLB590 - 595	1942: PiLB501 - 504 1943: PiLB505 - 514 1944: PiLB515 - 532, 546 - 552 1945: PiLB533 - 535, 553, 554, 557, 558, 561 - 565	cancelled: PiLB542 - 545, 555, 556, 559, 560, 596 - 655 incomplete: PiLB566 - 595 completed for France: PiLB536 (Constance I, 11.1945), PiLB537 - 540 (Constance II - V, 1946) completed mercantile: PiLB541 (1946) PiLB507 (25.3.1944), PiLB508 (31.3.1944), PiLB510 (9.4.1944), PiLB511 (25.3.1944), PiLB512 (7.9.1944), PiLB514 (31.3.1944), PiLB515 (31.3.1944), PiLB516 (31.3.1944), PiLB554 (16.4.1945), PiLB562 (20.4.1945) and may be others	United Kingdom: PiLB506 (16.9.1944) Switzerland: PiLB535 (23.4.1945, interned)	unknown

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	34
Displacement full, t	71
Length, m	19.7
Breadth, m	5.70
Draught, m	1.00 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 MWM or Kaelble or Deutz or Vomag or Saurer diesels
Power, h. p.	220 - 240
Max speed, kts	10.8
Fuel, t	diesel oil 1.1
Endurance, nm(kts)	260(10)
Armament	(1 - 3) x 1 - 7.9/79 or 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38 or 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30 or 1 x 4 - 20/65 C/38
Military load	40 t of cargo or 150 men or 2 trucks
Complement	7

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Project history

Engineer troops landing boats (Pionierlandungsboot) intended for transportation of troops and light vehicles. They were created on the basis of horse landing craft (Pferdboote) of WWI period. Boats were arranged by a bow ramp; boats of 1940 and 1941 types could be used for transportation of Sturmboots (could carry 2-4 units). After war 6 boats of 1941 type were completed for France.

Modernizations

nNone.

Naval service

No significant events.