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S6 torpedo boat (1933)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

S6

Lürssen, Vegesack: S6

11/1933: S6

none

United Kingdom, 1945: S6

surrendered 5.1945: S6


Technical data


Displacement standard, t60
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

32.4

Breadth, m

5.06

Draught, m

1.36

No of shafts

3

Machinery

3 MAN L7 diesels

Power, h. p.

3960

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, tdiesel oil 10.5
Endurance, nm(kts)758(22)
Armament

1 x 1 - 20/65 C/30, 2 - 533 TT

Complement12


Standard scale images


<i>nearly sister-boat S7</i> 1935
nearly sister-boat S7 1935


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. S6 was first diesel-engined boat and used mainly for trials.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.