S boat

Japanese: S ボート - えすぼーと
S boat

…The British CMB (coastal motor boat) and the Italian MAS (motoscafi antisommergibili) of World War I are representative of early torpedo boats. In World War II, the American PT (patrol boat torpedo), the British MTB (motor torpedo boat), and the German S boat (Schnellboot) were equipped with 2-4 torpedoes and 2-4 machine guns, and had a special hull shape and light structure, a lightweight, high-power high-speed engine, and could reach a high speed of about 40 knots, and operated in the English Channel and the South Pacific. In the 1970s, with the development of missiles, torpedo boats were almost no longer manufactured, and they were replaced by missile boats. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "S Boat" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…第1次世界大戦のイギリスのCMB(coastal motor boat),イタリアのMAS(motoscafi antisommergibili)が初期の魚雷艇の代表的なものである。第2次大戦ではアメリカのPT(patrol boat torpedo),イギリスのMTB(motor torpedo boat),ドイツのSボート(Schnellboot)などが,魚雷2~4本,機銃2~4基を持ち,特殊な船型,軽構造の船体に軽量大馬力の高速機関を備え,40ノット前後の高速を出して,イギリス海峡や南太平洋などで活動した。1970年代に入ってミサイルが発達したため,魚雷艇はほとんど製造されなくなり,ミサイル艇がこれに代わった。…

※「S ボート」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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