The Type 140 Jaguar class fast attack craft is an evolution of the German torpedo boat

Torpedo boat

A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval vessel designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs rammed enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes, and later designs launched self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. They were created to counter battleships and other large, slow and...

s (E boats) of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. The design was developed by Lürssen

Lürssen

Lürssen is a German shipbuilding company based in Bremen-Vegesack.Lürssen designs and constructs yachts, naval ships and special vessels...

 and designated Schnellboot 55. The 20 boats that were built for the German Navy were in Service from 1959 to 1976. Then the Jaguar class boats were replaced in service with the Bundesmarine by the Type 148 Tiger class fast attack craft

Tiger class fast attack craft

The Type 148 Tiger class fast attack craft is a modification of the French La Combattante II design for the Bundesmarine . The La Combattante had been designed by Lürssen of Germany for Israel, but were built in France by Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie in Cherbourg for political reasons...

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The Jaguar class Boats were relatively well suited for high sea action. In NATO strategy it was their duty to intercept landing operations in the Baltic Sea, prevent transfers of ships of the Soviet Union and keep the transatlantic supply lines open through the North Sea.

The Type 141 Seeadler fast attack craft

Seeadler class fast attack craft

The Type 141 Seeadler class fast attack craft differs from Type 140 Jaguar class fast attack craft only in the installation of other, later more powerful diesel engine....

differs from the Type 140 only in the model of engine.

List of boats

NATO pennant number Pennant number In the modern Royal Navy, and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers...	German pennant number	Name	Com- missioned	Decom- missioned	Fate
P6059	S1	Jaguar	November 16, 1957	June 22, 1973	sold to private shipyard
P6058	S2	Iltis	December 19, 1957	January 31, 1975	Used as target ship Target ship A target ship is a vessel — typically an obsolete or captured warship — used for naval gunnery practice or for weapons testing.-Rationale:Sinking redundant warships is an effective way of testing new weapons and warships in as realistic a manner as possible. Whilst practice torpedoes are fired... , then to Turkish Navy Turkish Navy The Turkish Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces.- Ottoman fleet after Mudros :Following the demise of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, on November 3, 1918, the fleet commander of the Ottoman Navy, Liva Amiral Arif Pasha, ordered all flags to be...  for cannibalization Cannibalization of machine parts Cannibalization of machine parts, in maintenance of mechanical or electronic systems with interchangeable parts, refers to the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device, rather than from inventory, usually when resources become limited...
P6062	S3	Wolf	February 12, 1958	March 21, 1975	To Turkish Navy as P335 Kalkan
P6061	S4	Luchs	March 27, 1957	December 1, 1972	sold to private company
P6060	S5	Leopard	May 20, 1958	May 28, 1973	sold to private shipyard
P6065	S12	Löwe	February 5, 1959	April 25, 1975	To Turkish Navy as P332 Kilic
P6066	S13	Fuchs	March 17, 1959	July 13, 1973	sold to private shipyard
P6067	S14	Marder	July 7, 1959	June 22, 1972	sold to private shipyard
P6082	S15	Weihe	October 28, 1959	July 5, 1972	To France as target ship Target ship A target ship is a vessel — typically an obsolete or captured warship — used for naval gunnery practice or for weapons testing.-Rationale:Sinking redundant warships is an effective way of testing new weapons and warships in as realistic a manner as possible. Whilst practice torpedoes are fired... , sunk
P6083	S16	Kranich	December 19, 1959	November 2, 1973	Museum ship Museum ship A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public, for educational or memorial purposes...  in Bremerhaven Bremerhaven Bremerhaven is a city at the seaport of the free city-state of Bremen, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It forms an enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the River Weser on its eastern bank, opposite the town of Nordenham... , scrapped 2006
P6085	S17	Storch	March 12, 1960	March 29, 1974	To Turkish Navy as P331 Tufan
P6087	S18	Häher	April 5, 1960	December 15, 1974	To Turkish Navy as P333 Mizrak
P6088	S19	Elster	July 8, 1960	July 19, 1974	sold to private shipyard
P6089	S20	Reiher	August 15, 1960	August 21, 1973	To Turkish Navy, for cannibalization?
P6091	S21	Dommel	February 4, 1961	March 22, 1974	sold to private shipyard
P6090	S22	Pinguin	March 28, 1961	December 14, 1972	To Turkish Navy as P336 Karayel
P6063	S23	Tiger	October 15, 1958	December 20, 1974	To Turkish Navy as P334 Yildiz
P6064	S24	Panther	December 12, 1958	March 1, 1973	sold to private shipyard
P6084	S29	Alk	January 14, 1960	August 6, 1974	To Turkish Navy, for cannibalization?
P6086	S30	Pelikan	March 30, 1960	May 31, 1974	To Turkish Navy, P330 Firtina