{"product_id":"kriegsmarine-s-boat-flotilla","title":"Kriegsmarine S-boat Flotilla","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Schnellboat or 'E Boat' as the British Admiralty called them, E for enemy, was a truly formidable beast, in many ways incomparable in detail to the other nation's boats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn sheer size alone, the E boat was much, much bigger. Allied boats tended to be 70-80 feet in length, the E boat 115 feet long, and the laws of physics, though complex, favour a larger hull for speed over a shorter one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGerman engineering also gave them another advantage, as when speed reached 25 knots, a crank mechanism when turned moved 2 side rudders to flare, symmetrically outward at 30 degrees, creating an air-filled hollow space, the so-called Lürssen effect. This gave three distinct advantages, greater speed, a reduction in the tell-tale wake of the speeding boat, and finally settled the boat in a more efficient plane, leaving the vessel shallower in the water, most useful in mine and torpedo infested waters and remarkable for a boat weighing in at 100 tons!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContains: six E-boats (3x S-38 \u0026amp; 3x S-100)\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Warlord Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56049923228026,"sku":"ZWG-782012001","price":21.82,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/9970\/8282\/files\/ZWG-782012001.jpg?v=1760984114","url":"https:\/\/zatu.com\/en-ie\/products\/kriegsmarine-s-boat-flotilla","provider":"Zatu Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}