S 64 (Kriegsmarine)
| P 64 | |
|---|---|
| Shipyard | Lürssen Vegesack |
| Technical specifications | |
| length | 34.94 m |
| width | 5.28 m |
| Draft | 1.67 m |
| displacement | 92.5 / 115.0 t |
| Engines | 3 × Daimler-Benz MB501 diesel engines (1500/2000 PS) |
| PS | 6,000 |
| Diesel Dyn | 15 kW 110 volts |
| propeller | 3 × three-winged, 1.08 m diameter |
| speed | 39 kn |
| Range | approx. 700 nm at 39 kn |
| fuel | 13.5 t |
| crew | 24/31 (1/2 officers, 23/29 men) |
| Armament | 2 torpedo tubes - 4 torpedoes 53.3 cm 2 × 20 mm automatic cannon (C / 30 or C / 38) 1 × 7.9 mm machine gun |
The Schnellboot S 64 was of the type S 38 (further development of the type S 26) and was built at the Lürssen shipyard.
technology
S 64 received a normal unarmored bridge like its predecessors, which changed from S 67 onwards . The boat was a round-frame double kraweel oak / mahogany / white cedar / Oregonpine / light metal composite construction, engine foundation 3 mm sheet steel with flat iron girders with bow, foredeck with hard chine. The propeller shafts were stored in a fixed rudder guide block behind the propellers, which resulted in a considerable increase in speed. The half-balance rudder with two side rudders in the screw flow, the so-called Lürssen effect, also increased the speed.
period of service
The boat was put into service on November 2, 1941 in the 4th Schnellbootflotille, here it was used in the English Channel on various mine operations and as a cover vehicle. S 64 under Oblt.zS Wilcke was able to sink the British tanker Asperity with 699 GRT by a torpedo on November 28, 1941 .
The boat was then transferred to the 8th Schnellboot Flotilla in Norway in 1942/43 and from 1944 it belonged to the 2nd Schnellboot-Schul-Flotilla.
On March 27, 1945, S 64 sank the Soviet submarine TK-199 by artillery.
At the end of the war in 1945, the boat went to the USA as spoils of war and was recorded by the Office of Military Government for Germany (OMGUS) on January 18, 1946 . From 1947 the boat went to Norway as LYN and from 1951 to Denmark as Stormfuglen , where it was decommissioned in 1965.
Affiliation
| Period | flotilla |
|---|---|
| 11/02/1941 | 4. Speedboat flotilla |
| xx.12.1942 | 8. Speedboat flotilla |
| xx.06.1943 | 4. Speedboat flotilla |
| xx.09.1943 | 8. Speedboat flotilla |
| xx.11.1944 | 2. Speedboat School Flotilla |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronik des Maritime War, November 1941 , viewed on August 24, 2008