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"B-Fähre 40" type small landing ferries (1940)

L.F.1

Names

150 units

Builders

Sonderkommando Siebel, Antwerp: 150 units

Commissioned

1940: 150 units

Losses

unknown

Transfers

unknown

Discarding

unknown

 

Displacement standard, t

8

Displacement full, t

11

Length, m

15.5

Breadth, m

6.40

Draught, m

0.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 petrol engines

Power, h. p.

66

Max speed, kts

5

Fuel, t

petrol

Armament

1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38

Military load

3 t of cargo

Complement

 

Project history: First type of landing ferry, assembled on the basis of pontoons of B-type floating bridge. Army ferries were equipped by usual motors with screws, ferries built for Lüftwaffe were equipped by aircraft motor with air propeller.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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