E-boat

"E-boat" is the British and American name for the World War II German Schnellboot (S-boot), a small, fast torpedo boat a little larger than the American PT boat and the British MTB.

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After the Treaty of Versailles most of Germany's military production was severly curtailed. Small patrol craft were not. The E-boats trace their lineage back to a private motor yacht - a 22 ton dispacement 34 knot craft called Oheka II.

German: German may mean:...

Torpedo boat: A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to launch torpedoes at larger surface ships. They were created to counter battleships and other large, slow and heavily armed ship by speed and agility....

PT boat: A PT boat was a motor torpedo boat (hull classification symbol "PT", for "Patrol Torpedo"), a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet"....

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