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AMPHIBIOUS SHIPS AND CRAFT

"Schnelltransporter" type landing craft

Schnelltransporter I 1944

Names

Schnelltransporter I, II

Builders

Dutch or Belgian yard

Commissioned

Schnelltransporter I: 1944

Losses

cancelled: Schnelltransporter II

losses are unknown

Transfers

unknown

Discarding

unknown

 

Displacement standard, t

53

Displacement full, t

73

Length, m

28.4

Breadth, m

4.40

Draught, m

0.90 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Schnelltransporter I: Hispano-Suiza petrol engines

Schnelltransporter II: Jumo diesels

Power, h. p.

Schnelltransporter I: 720

Schnelltransporter II: 600

Max speed, kts

Schnelltransporter I: 20

Schnelltransporter II: 14.5

Fuel, t

petrol or diesel oil

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/57 FlaK M/43, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38

Military load

20 t of cargo

Complement

12

Ship project history: Schnelltransporter (fast transport craft).

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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