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Item:BUILT 1/72 GERMAN WW2 -EBOAT-SBOAT-SCHNELLBOOTE AT SEA

BUILT 1/72 GERMAN WW2 -EBOAT-SBOAT-SCHNELLBOOTE AT SEA

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Ended:Nov 08, 200916:29:14 PST
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Item number:290365534708
Item location:gettysburg, PA, United States
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This item for auction is a " at sea" display of a World War 2 German Navy S-Boat or as the Allied knew them by a E-Boat which stood for enemy boat. This display is 30" long and with a oak frame. The detail is unbelievable as you can tell by looking at the pictures. There are even hand painted resin crewmen manning the decks!  There is also a extra rubber dingy too.  I've been building displays for longer than I want to think about. Check my other auctions for WW2 figures and armor too. The water on this display looks so real it looks like the REAL DEAL! The ship itself is fully painted, weathered, etc. There is rigging for the mast's and even a ensign.  Here is just a little background on these WW2 boats. The Fast Attack boats - called E-Boats by the Allied - were the primary attack crafts for coastal water that took over the role of the classical torpedo boat. Besides several only slightly different classes of the so called S-Boats which operated very successful, multiple design studies of very unconventional Fast Attack Boats were made but never completed. As an example for these designs- including hydrofoils, jet powered boats or submergible crafts - the projects of the small attack craft group (K-Verband) by Wendel are shown. This example is of a later class boat. Operating in coastal waters, the offensive S-boats (called E-Boats - Enemy boats - by the Allied), were a very effective weapon. They took over the role of the torpedo boat after those ships were more and more used for duty normally fulfilled by destroyers.   The fast attack boats were used in almost all theaters of war, the Baltic Seas, the Mediterranean or the Black Sea, but their main operational area was the British Channel where they attacked coastal shipping, especially during the night. Their operational record was quite successful, the S-boats sunk over 40 warships (including 12 destroyers) and far over 100 merchants, while damaging 14 other warships (including 2 cruisers) and 15 merchants. But this was not archived without heavy losses, especially in the later years of the war. Being vulnerable to air attacks and without nay radar, the S-boats lost the surprise factor in their night attacks
and had to abort more attacks than they could bring to an end.  One more unknown fast is that S-boats were also intensively used for mine laying operations. In fact most of these operations made by S-boats were mine laying operations, but as the boats could only carry up to 6 mines those operations had only a minor success.   Although there were several classes of those ships, all had the same basic design and most of them were build at one single shipyard, Lürssen in Vegesack, which continued to build successful fast attack crafts after the war. Several boats were used by other navies after the war, two of them were added to the new formed Bundesmarine in 1957. Well theres a little information on these vessels. There is also a brass nameplate titled, " SCHNELLBOOTE 1944 " on the frame.  Buyers pay USPS  shipping & insurance and delivery confirmation is included in shipping. Item will be PACKED WELL!  Check my other auctions if you like things like this!   Thanks for looking!
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Nov 02, 2009 


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