Exercise Tiger and E Boat Involvement

[Erich]

here is a pic of Bernd Klug of the 5th S-Boot Flottille

[red devil]

Thank you, indebted to you all, now online. I will use your top left badge here I think as a pictorial site link back yo you.

[Erich]

Friend, I have sent you 3 more scans............hopefully they will come in without problem. Site looks grand !

Erich ~

[red devil]

Yes online now on Ex Tiger

[ohrdruf]

If "E-boat" is a Royal Navy term which means "Enemy boat", can somebody kindly tell me what did the Royal Navy call these boats before 3 September 1939?

[Tiornu]

No one knows what the "E" in "E-boat" stands for. "Enemy" is only one of several suggestions, none of which are very convincing.

[tigre]

Hello to all ; a complement..............................

Excersice Tiger Debacle 1944.

Source: http://www.eucom.mil/media-library/phot ... er-diagram

Cheers. Raúl M .

[Polar bear]

hi,

regrettably, that sketch is quite off the truth. Reality was much more complicated.

The "Rotte" (group of two boats, normal for e-boat operations) 136/138 did not participate in the decisive attack. Their torpedoes were fired more than 30 min before the LSTs were hit. S 100 and S 150 belonged to different flottillas and did not operate together.

The boats which achieved the real hits were S 130, S 145 and S 150 of 9th flottilla operating together in a 3 boat group.

Thus, this info provided earlier in the thred is correct :
a post by Andy H reads:
A good book about Op.Tiger is Ken Small's "Forgotten Dead" published by Bloomsbury ISBN 0747504334, maybe worth a trip to the library?
Anyway Peterson was awarded Oakleaves to his KC for this attack on Op. Tiger. The 9th Flotilla's count was as follows:-
S130 1/2 a kill (shared with S150), sunk LST507
S145 1 kill, sank LST531
S150 1/2 a kill (shared with S130), sunk LST507, and 1 kill LST289

I provide a sketch based on war diary of "Führer der Schnellboote" with my own additions with respect to the boat numbers.

greetings, the pb

[David W]

Yes, it seems that the engagement was far closer to Portland than usually documented.

[tigre]

Thanks for shedding light on it pb . Cheers. Raúl M .

[T. A. Gardner]

Some of the damage:

LST 289 hit on the stern:

[jopaerya]

viewtopic.php?f=70&t=229222&hilit=Tiger

[Polar bear]

hi,

a minuscule error in your link : the ships were LST's.

greetings, the pb

[modlrfleck]

Can anyone help with the the markings on the Lyme Bay S38bs? I know S130 was a raven (Rabe) bit can't figure out s138. I want to build a model using the new Fore Hobby S38b kit.
Thankyou