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Leaky

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S boats under foreign flags
« on: May 11, 2009, 02:09:48 pm »
Hello lads I'm looking for some information about S boats to go along with my Italeri 1/35th build.Did the Italians use S boats under a kind of lend lease agreement? Ive done a search of the web and looked on the popular sites such as Prinz Eugen and the axis history forum with no result i just fancy doing something a bit different and i can imagine the Italians coming up with some daring camouflage schemes :-)
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bigH

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Re: S boats under foreign flags
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2009, 05:12:57 pm »
Hi Leaky, try a russian site mate, a lot of the s-100s were given to them after the war and to the Italians,
mabye they will have info on them.   bigH
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Re: S boats under foreign flags
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2009, 05:40:29 pm »
some were used by britain after the war
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cdsc123

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Re: S boats under foreign flags
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2009, 07:00:41 pm »
When Cattaro, Yugoslavia fell to the Axis powers in April 1941 six Lurssen type S2-5 (E-Boats) were taken over by the Italians. The CRDA 60-ton type boats were based upon these but had petrol engines as the Germans were unwilling to provide the superior and safer Mercedes diesels their boats used (they also refused to provide the plans for their upgraded versions of these boats which they used themselves).

Technical Specifications;


Class: C.R.D.A. 60 ton 1a Serie (Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico)



(Motor Torpedo Boat)

Displacement: 63.4 t. Length: 28 m. Width: 4.3 m. Draft: 1.67 m.

Engine: 3 1100hp Isotta Fraschini ASM 183 (petrol)

HP: 3300 Propellers: 3 Speed: 32.5 kts.

Fuel: 6 t. Range: 350@32

Armament: 2x20/65 , 1x6.5 ,

Torpedo Tubes: 2x53.3cm
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mickyrubble

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Re: S boats under foreign flags
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2009, 12:21:14 am »
Hi,
 I read some where that the Spanish navy operated a number of s130 type boats up until the early 1960's,Worth checking out :-))
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cdsc123

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Re: S boats under foreign flags
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2009, 08:57:05 am »
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Leaky

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Re: S boats under foreign flags
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2009, 10:24:17 pm »
Thanks for the replies i do know about the Spanish boats i just wondered if i could do something a bit different.Looks like I'm doing a German one after all :-)
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keef666

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Re: S boats under foreign flags
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2009, 10:56:17 pm »
leaky if i am reading this right, you want to do the italeri s-boat, under another flag, as far as i know, the s100 type was only used by germany, but after the war the U.S.A and Britain got a few and some ended up in Spain and Sweden etc, the Italians had their own boats [ new release from italeri later in the year]
 so it looks like you can only do a German version, unless you have a go at a postwar type
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Re: S boats under foreign flags
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2009, 01:50:13 pm »
The Danish navy also used some S-boats after the war. Not sure how many, or how long they were in service, though. There's a single photo on this page - http://www.prinzeugen.com/Weapons.htm -  of two Danish boats which are both the S-100 armoured bridge type represented by the Italeri (and Revell 1/72) kits.
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Re: S boats under foreign flags
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2009, 09:20:43 am »
Thanks for all that lads i think i will take the path of least resistance and do a germanski! :-)
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