The Last E-Boat | S-130 

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The German's did some audacious missions across the channel, gutsy effort on their part considering the odds.

How steady those boats plow through the water, without bouncing , incredible and impressiv

I have met Vice Admiral Klose after he retired as Commander of the German Navy. A truly remarkable person. Two of his S-Boats were sunk and he saved one of his soldiers by swimming with him on his back. Because he was in three Navies he retired three times. For his service in the English Navy he was given a ceremony in Britain (which is the picture where he signs the guestbook of HMS Victory). His live is full of anecdotes. One of them was that he never performed a driving test for a driver's license. He went with the sinking certificate (Versenkungsurkunde) to the office that issues those kind of things and they handed him one. When he commanded a destroyer, he left the WO (watch officer) to steer the ship in the treacherous North Sea while he retired to his quarters and it ran on ground. The next day he received a telegram. He thought for sure he would be relieved of command, but it was his promotion to Admiral. Some of his soldiers put together a booklet of "Klosisms", i.e. a collection of his one liners. I have seen hit, but unfortunately I don't have a copy. Dönitz's son reported to him for a while. He had epilepsy and Klose couldn't have him on the squadron, so he went to Berlin and talked to the old Dönitz directly about it. Dönitz was not impressed, but eventually moved his son to a different unit. Klose said about Dönitz that he "pissed ice".

The Great White of the seas. A very fearsome boat in its time, i hope the restoration comes to completion.

the crews on those S Boats were Brave Lads

Save S130....she deserves to sail again.

The first thought that I had was the US PT boats but this is another animal. Wow!

Thanks from Canada , Wow great video !!

Very impressive boats. Though I hate the look of the broken sheer to launch torpedoes.

I believe HMS Frobisher, a cruiser, was torpedoed by an E boat while shelling the D Day landing fields. Not sunk, but forced to retire hurt.

Nice, not enough WW2 boats are still round and in sailin condition. Its all history, no matter side they come from.

Incredible history wow

Karl Donitz lost one son who was a submariner, after his U-boat was sunk. I didn't know about the other son, I'm glad I saw this video

„Schnell-Boots“ 🥾🥾

There is one in a Backwater in Wilhelmshaven !

What an excellent video I learned a lot ! Just fyi KEEL is how the city is said not kee-el and Boot is said like Boat It now seems so silly that they are remembered as E-Boats and not S-Boots

Look at the later RN fast boats of the Brave class.

Now, I could be wrong here, But at the school I went to in Kent in the late 60s we had a chemistry teacher called Chris Harvey, he lived on a converted German MTB at Shoreham on sea. Could this have been the same boat? It would be interesting to find out.

It is not a speed boat it is a Torpedo boat.

My father’s oldest brother died in the April slaughter of the 600+/- soldiers that were in full gear and drowned without any life preservers. My uncle was a sailor on one of the two LSTs that night and a great part of the tragedy for the Allied troops was that a British Destroyer was assigned for protection (as usual that night) and could have given much more protection for the convoy with it’s larger guns and trained gun crews that could handle multiple targets, however the captain of the destroyer put into port for repairs and failed to report that to command for a replacement which left the largest and most potent weapon out of the plane and those men paid the price for stupidity and arrogance in the cold water of the English Channel. To say that Eisenhower was pissed when he heard about this fiasco is an understatement. But beyond the huge death toll from a training session 6 weeks before D Day, he was outraged by the loss of the LSTs which had been difficult to get because of their cost of $250,000 each which was an amazing amount of money to get congress to approve for only less than a dozen specifically for this invasion. I researched the total number of LSTs, but could never get an answer. However, Navy records indicate that 26 were sunk by the end of September 1944. And out of the total, one was kept afloat in the Navy, although LST 715 was listed as lost in June of 1944, it also shows up in Vietnam in and was back in the US and decommissioned in 1973. In one of two flukes, I happened to meet a veteran and we talked about my father’s service as the gunner and copilot on an SBD DOUGLAS DIVE BOMBER and it got around to my uncle’s death in the slaughter that was the result of the British captain’s dereliction of duty (who also never had any action taken against him because the entire event was covered up and everyone who died in it was buried in mass graves and it was not until the mid 1980’s when another uncle saw an article in the paper from a freedom of information act telling the truth about his oldest brothers death. My grandparents were told by the military that he had died during D Day and we decided that there was no reason to tell them the truth as they were in their 80s and the stress might have killed them), the second fluke of an event was that my wife and I went to England in 1991 for almost 3 weeks and after the obligatory tourist experience in London for two days we headed north and ended up in the town of Hexam in a B&B in the home of a lovely family who were so nice that we stayed 3 days touring the area of Hadrian’s Wall and the Moors during the days and enjoying their company at the pub and home in the evening. During one evening, I told the story about my uncle’s death and the wife became very quiet for a moment and then began telling me that she had been a nurse down on the SE Coast back then when she was just more than a girl. She said that they were called into an auditorium early that morning and told that they were about to see things that was extremely top secret and that should anyone be caught talking to outsiders, they would face the death penalty. When they left, they had to begin processing the bodies of the soldiers and sailors (over 150 sailors per LST) for burial in mass graves. The recovery of and processing of the dead took several days. I was blown away to have come to England and ended up meeting this lovely woman and her family! I understand that the town where this happened now holds a memorial service each year in April, and I regret that I am too old to attend one of these now, but I am pleased that the men who died in the service of our country are finally receiving the recognition and honor that they deserve! I have to say that I have always questioned the reason to have sent the men so far into the channel just to turn and practice a landing. But, that’s why I was not in command! God bless my uncle and all of his compatriots! The old professor Live free or die!!! Death ☠️ to all tyrants, all tyrants foreign and domestic!!! Pedophiles too!!! No Shit………….

"Lativa"

4:50 An interesting term: “taken as a war trophy.” That probably means … “it’s ours and no changings” … it probably goes back centuries to old Admiralty Law. No title transfer needed. Any THOUGHTS? Lawyers? Enlighten me, please.

Do you have any recent photos or how to find a restoration progress update for this boat?

Kriegsmarine lacked coherence and overall mission. Despite this it was a terror to the Royal Navy again!

So ein schnittiges Boot sollte erhalten werden. Warum hat man kein englisches MTB dafür genommen 😅

A turret on the Iowa weighs more than almost all surviving ships from WW2 from other countries combined

Not much happening on this project for about the last 10years.. 😑

They were the German PT Boats then?.

Anyone know what type of construction she was built with?

6:18 LATT VIAH

The Nazis should hand made more of those fast boats they coukd have caused havoic in hit and run attacks all over the coasts of The UK.

Mention PT boats & the image of a handsome JFK, hair blowing in the breeze comes to mind. PT boats were noisy & flimsy death traps despite the bravery of the crews. They used WWI torpedoes that often got jammed in the tubes. MacArthur fled the Philippines to Australia with two of the four boat flotilla never seen again. Too bad MacArthur didn't go down. He was a great man in WWI but a pompous & inept coward in WWII and desperately wanted to nuke China in the Korean war. As an example try and imagine Rudy Giuliani replacing Omar Bradley, all of Europe would have been speaking German by 43.

Germany 💪💪💪

No real sound 😢

An appalling loss of American lives through poor planning and miss management and was all hushed up at the time

Attacked with no warning? Hmm, that must have been the only time that happened. 😅

😂New country of Lativa ????

Was anyone reprimanded for allowing the S boats to engage the transports These insertions of agents were betrayed by trator Kim Philby.

Zelensky will take it!

My father was on PT boat's in WW Two

For God's sake, do something about all the spelling mistakes.

Bro… blow your nose…