Cruel Seas: Kriegsmarine E-boat flotillaThe 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 nations boats. In 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. German engineering also gave them another advantage, as when