E-boat was the Western Allies' designation for the fast attack craft (German: Schnellboot, or S-Boot, meaning "fast boat"; plural Schnellboote) of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II; E-boat could refer to a patrol craft from an armed motorboat to a large Torpedoboot. [1]

2023年6月22日 · Over the course of the Second World War, E-boats reportedly sunk 12 destroyers, 11 minesweepers, eight landing ships, one submarine, six MTBs, one minelayer, one torpedo boat and various smaller vessels, including fishing boats. They were also responsible for sinking 101 Allied merchant ships, totaling 214,728 tons, and damaged various others ...

2023年7月19日 · The E-boats played a significant role in the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign during World War II. Their mission was to disrupt the Allied supply lines between North America and Europe, and they frequently targeted convoys carrying critical supplies and troops.

2015年6月30日 · High-speed torpedo-firing patrol craft used by the German Kriegsmarine during World War II for naval interdiction and coastal defense. Named “E-boats” (for “enemy torpedo boats”) by the Royal Navy, the craft of Germany’s Schnellbootwaffe constituted a fearsome threat to Allied shipping, particularly in the Narrow Seas.

2017年7月10日 · Page details technical specifications, development, operational history of the Schnellboot (S-Boot) / (E-Boat) Motor Torpedo Boat including pictures. The global defense reference actively compiled since 2003

The Kriegsmarine’s Schnellboote—fast attack boats or E-boats to the Allies—were the primary German naval attack units in coastal waters throughout the Second World War. Operating close to their various bases they became a devastatingly effective weapon in nearly all the Kriegsmarine’s theaters of war, from the Baltic to the ...

The Fast Attack boats - called E-Boats by the Allied - were the primary attack crafts for coastal water that took over the role of the classical torpedo boat.

The E-boat fleet may have been relatively small, but its achievements were significant, ranking it amongst the most successful and cost-effective elements of the Kriegsmarine in World War II. Note: The term E-boat is generally accepted to have been a British term derived from the designation Enemy Boat.

2016年4月6日 · During actions at sea, the French destroyer La Combattante sank two E-boats, S.147 on 26 April and S.141 on 13 May, which were among boats sent out from Boulogne on reconnaissance to discover where the Allied landing craft …

2012年4月20日 · Although the heavy units of the fleet were too small in number to pose much of a threat, Germany was particularly well served by her Navy's smaller vessels, in particular the U-Boats and the...