Type: motor torpedo boat
Displacement: 100 tons (max)
78.9 tons (standard)
Length: 32.76 m
Beam: 5.06 m
Draught: 1.47 m
Propulsion: 3x Daimler Benz twenty-cylinder diesel engines MT 502; 3,960 hp
Speed: 43.8 knots
Range: 800 nm at 30 knots
Complement: 24-30
Armament: 2x 533 mm torpedo tubes (4 torpedoes)
1x 20 mm C/30 cannon (later two)
8x 7.92 mm machine guns alternatively
6 mines
Variants
The Schnellboot design evolved over time. The first had a pair of torpedo tubes on the fore deck. Types were:-
S-26 class
Entered service in 1940. 40 m hull. Torpedo tubes covered by forward deck.
S-30 class
S-38 class
S-38b class
Improved 38 class with armoured bridge.
S-100 class
From 1943. 2 x 20 mm gun amidships and 37 mm gun aft.
S-151 class
Type 700
late war design proposal with stern torpedo tubes and 30 mm gun turret forward. 8 boats built, but completed to S-100 design specification