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KRIEGSMARINE (GERMANY)

COASTAL FORCES

"PiSiBoot 42/43" type armoured river motor gunboats (1944)

Boot 01 with planned armament

Names

Boot 01, Boot 02

Builders

Aussig / Balatonfüred, Hungary: Boot 01, 02

Commissioned

6/1944: Boot 01

Losses

completed for Czechoslovakia 1947: Boot 02 (DČ-1)

Transfers

none

Discarding

surrendered 5.1945: Boot 01, BU

 

Displacement standard, t

27.2

Displacement full, t

33.6

Length, m

19.3

Breadth, m

4.26

Draught, m

1.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 BMW VI petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

23.8

Fuel, t

petrol
Endurance, nm(kts)  
Armour, mm turret: 50, deck: 10, belt: 10

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/80 SK C/30, 1 x 3 - 15/84

Complement

23

Project history: Armoured motor gunboat, ordered by Army. Intended to serve with bridge teams and landing engineer troops. Boats could be disassembled on three sections (central 19.3x3.0m and two side 16.6x0.6m) and carried by heavy trucks. Planned armament consisted from 1 50mm/42 tank gun in Pz III turret and 1 quadruple 20mm MG.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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