S-204 Lang

S-204 Lang

S-204 Lang

Germany

III Rank

Battle rating:

AB	RB	SB
2.3	2.3	2.3

Class:

PREMIUM

Motor torpedo boat

Boat

Purchase:Bundle or Gift

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Description

The S-100-class, S204 Lang is a premium gift rank III German motor torpedo boat with a battle rating of 2.3 (AB/RB/SB). It was one of the earliest pre-orders offered to access the fleet closed beta test before being removed from the store with the wide-release of the closed beta test in Update 1.79 "Project X".

General info

Survivability and armour

Armourfront / side / back

Hull40 mm (wood)

Superstructure4 mm (steel)

Number of section3

Displacement117 t

Crew21 people

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Mobility

Speedforward / back

AB109 / 33 km/h

RB78 / 24 km/h

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Mobility Characteristics
Game Mode	Upgrade Status	Maximum Speed (km/h)		Turn Time (s)	Turn Radius (m)
		Forward	Reverse
AB	Stock	___	___
	Upgraded	109	33
RB/SB	Stock	___	___
	Upgraded	78	24

Modifications and economy

Repair cost

AB1 200

RB2 350

Crew training10 000

Experts67 000

Aces400

Research Aces570 000

Reward for battleAB / RB / SB

2 × 100 / 170 / 50 %

2 × 136 / 136 / 136 %

Modifications

Seakeeping	Unsinkability	Firepower
Dry-Docking Rudder Replacement Propeller Replacement Engine Maintenance	Damage Control Division Fire Division Smokescreen New Pumps	Anti-Air Armament Targeting 37 mm HE clips 20 mm HET magazines Auxiliary Armament Targeting 37 mm APT clips 20 mm APT magazines Primary Armament Targeting Artillery Support Torpedo Mode Mines

Armament

Primary armament

Turret2 cm/65 C/38 automatic cannon

Ammunition2000 rounds

Belt capacity40 rounds

Fire rate480 shots/min

Vertical guidance-4° / 60°

Turret2 x 2 cm/65 Flakzwilling 38 automatic cannon

Ammunition4000 rounds

Belt capacity40 rounds

Fire rate501 shots/min

Vertical guidance-5° / 60°

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• Universal: AP-T · AP · HEF-T · HEF
• 20 mm HET magazines: HEF · HEF-T · HEF · AP
• 20 mm APT magazines: AP · AP-T · AP · HEF

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
	10 m	100 m	500 m	1,000 m	1,500 m	2,000 m
HEF-T	2	2	2	2	2	2
AP	36	35	27	20	15	11
AP-T	36	35	27	20	15	11
HEF	2	2	2	2	2	2

Shell details
Ammunition	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile mass (kg)	Fuse delay (m)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (g)	Ricochet
						0%	50%	100%
HEF-T	835	0.12	0	0.1	10.54	79°	80°	81°
AP	785	0.15	-	-	-	47°	60°	65°
AP-T	785	0.15	-	-	-	47°	60°	65°
HEF	835	0.12	0	0.1	10.54	79°	80°	81°

Secondary armament

Turret3.7 cm FlaK-Lafette C/36 mounting

Ammunition2000 rounds

Belt capacity5 rounds

Fire rate250 shots/min

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• Universal: AP-T · HEF-I
• 37 mm HE clips: HEF-I · HEF-I · HEF-I · HEF-I · AP-T
• 37 mm APT clips: AP-T · AP-T · AP-T · AP-T · HEF-I

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
	10 m	100 m	500 m	1,000 m	1,500 m	2,000 m
HEF-I	3	3	3	3	3	3
AP-T	67	64	53	42	33	26

Shell details
Ammunition	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile mass (kg)	Fuse delay (m)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (g)	Ricochet
						0%	50%	100%
HEF-I	845	0.62	0	0.1	44.03	79°	80°	81°
AP-T	815	0.7	-	-	-	47°	60°	65°

Anti-aircraft armament

2 х Turret7.92 mm MG15 machine gun

Ammunition1500 rounds

Belt capacity75 rounds

Fire rate1000 shots/min

Both 7.92 mm MG 15 are located on the bridge, protected by a slope of 12 mm armor

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Additional armament

Setup 14 x 533 mm G7a torpedo

Setup 24 x EMF moored magnetic mine

Setup 34 x 533 mm G7a torpedo

2 x EMF moored magnetic mine

Dropping EMF mines off the back

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Usage in battles

S-204 Lang can be used exactly the same as its tech-tree equivalent: S-100. Making a use of all your firepower requires you to expose an entire broadside - if an enemy sprays your entire broadside, you'll most likely die right away. This creates an interesting play style, where one has to either approach or depart from the enemy at a sufficient angle to make use of at least two of your guns, while preferably avoiding being fired upon, and thus - playing on the outskirts of the main engagements. An excellent top-speed of 104 km/h is a huge enabler in playing such a harassing role.

Pros and cons

3.7 cm FlaK-Lafette C/36 features an extended gun shield on the S-204, compared to the regular S-100.

Pros:

• Broadside firepower
• Very good torpedoes with a reload available
• Ability to carry both: Mines and torpedoes at the same time

Cons:

• Below average survivability
• In most of the frontal arcs, only a single 20mm gun is able to engage the enemy
• Large profile makes an easy target for bomber and cannon-equipped fighters alike.
• Anti-aircraft 7.92 mm MG 15 has an extremely limited field of fire (only ±16° horizontally and -1°/+40° vertically) making it unable to engage anything but enemy planes in a very shallow dive perpendicularly towards the vessel.

History

The S-204 Torpedo boat from the 4th flotilla, nicknamed “Lang”, is one of the latest versions of the famous German S-100 Schnellboot (1945). The main difference with the S-204 are the slide rails for depth charges at the stern. The boat is also armed with 4 torpedoes of 533 mm calibre, an excellent 37 mm gun, one twin and one single C / 38 20-mm naval gun. Three engines allow it to reach a speed of 42.5 knots (almost 80 km / h). The S-204 Lang is a true child of war, a dangerous and fast vessel to destroy enemy ships of any class and type.

-From Store

S 204 arriving under the white flag at Felixstowe

S-204 was built in the Lürssen shipyard in Vegesack, commissioned on 19 August 1944 to 4. Schnellboot-Flottille in the Netherlands. In the records from July 1944 the S-204 was under the command of OLt..z.S. Hans-Jürgen Seeger, nicknamed HaJü after its commander. On 10 October 1944 flottila was rebased to Kiel, on Baltic Sea. Once the Battle of the Bulge has begun, the 4th Schnellboot Flotilla was ordered back to the western front, where it arrived on 28 December 1944. In April 1945 the vessel was nicknamed Lang, under the command of Lt.z.S. Claus Hinrichs.

Following the 8th of May 1945 surrender, the S-204 was captured by the British forces in Rotterdam and carried the chief of the 4th Schnellboot Flotilla, KKpt Kurt Fimmen, along with KptLt Bernd Rebensburg to the British Navy base Beehive in Felixstowe. Claus Hinrichs remained the commander of the vessel, and the S-204 arrived at the British base under the white flag (see: picture right).

The vessel was delivered to the USSR on 4 January 1946 and assigned a new designation TK-1020. The following fate of the boat varies depending on the source.

• According to the Schnellboots Attack, the vessel was reclassified from TK-1020 to reconnaissance boat РК-1674 on 17 June 1952, then reclassified to the dispatch boat ПОК-47 and finally decomissioned on 21 December 1954 to be broken up (decomissioning date also confirmed by the Warships of the Soviet Fleets).
• According to Senotrusov Vyacheslav, TK-1020 was assigned to the Baltic Fleet on 7 February 1946 (days before Baltic Fleet was split into 4th and 8th Fleets of the USSR) and after a little bit over 2 years in service, she was mothballed on 28 February 1948. Following that, she was removed from mothballing on 12 January 1949 and transferred for breaking up on 25 September 1950 to the ОФИ.

A historical fiction book Armada, by Steven Wilson (published by Pinnacle Books), tells a story of the fictional loader for the 2 cm/65 C/38 named Matrose Willy Hellwig in the Chapter 11 of the book.

Media

Skins

• Skins and camouflages for the S-204 Lang from live.warthunder.com.

See also

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External links

• [German Naval History] Schnellboot 1939/1940
• [Roderick James Weston Timms] "E" Boats Surrender at Felixstowe
• [Retired Section Swansea Docks] German E Boat. S 204
• [Württembergische Landesbibliothek] 4. Schnellbootflottille
• [Förderverein Museums-Schnellboot e.V.] Buchstabenkennung in der 4. SFltl
• [Die Schnellboot-Seite] S-Boats in the Kriegsmarine 1935 - 1945: Whereabouts of the S-Boats
• [Navy of the World] Торпедные катера с S 201 до S 250 by Senotrusov Vyacheslav (Сенотрусов Вячеслав)
• Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939–1945: Volume III Naval Auxiliaries, Tom 3 by Przemysław Budzbon, Jan Radziemski and Marek Twardowski
• Schnellboots Attack: German Torpedo Boats of World War Two (Атакуют "Шнелльботы": Германские торпедные катера Второй мировой войны) by Miroslav Morozov, Sergei Patyanin and Mikhail Barabanov (Мирослав Морозов, Сергей Патянин, Михаил Барабанов) - page 108

Lürssen Werft
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Type S-100	S-100 · S-147 · S-204 Lang
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Albatros-class	Albatros · Bussard
	*S-67 in post-war Italian Service

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