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"EL" type landing self-propelled lighter

EL3

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
"EL(NL)" type
EL3     Klotzwerft, Stettin 12.1944 --- --- BU incomplete

 

Displacement standard, t

210

Displacement full, t

330

Length, m

41.3

Breadth, m

8.23

Draught, m

1.31 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Deutz diesels

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

10.2

Fuel, t

diesel oil 5.8

Endurance, nm(kts) 1117(8)
Armour, mm CT: 25

Armament

1 x 1 - 75/42 PaK40, 1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38

Military load

120 t of cargo

Complement

28

Project history: New generation of German landing ships, universal project intended to replace on the stocks all MFP and SF types. Simplified construction, bow ramp. Planned ships could had bad seaworthiness by the reason of open cargo hold. Only lead ship was laid down but never completed.

 

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