FL-boat

FL-boat

The FL-boat ("Fernlenkboote", literally "remote controlled boat") was a weapon used by the Imperial German Navy during World War One. It was a remote-controlled motorboat, 17 m long, carrying 700 kg of explosives, which was intended to be steered directly at its targets - initially the Royal Navy monitors operating off the coast of Flanders.

FL-boats were driven by internal combustion engines, and controlled remotely from a shore station through several miles of wire wound on a spool on the boat. An aircraft was used to signal directions to the shore station. They could attain speeds of 30 knots. They were constructed by Siemens-Schuckertwerke.

On 1917-03-01 an FL-boat made a hit on the Nieuwpoort mole and on 1917-10-28 one hit the Royal Navy monitor HMS Erebus.

References

*Citation | first = Mark D. | last = Karau | author-link = | title = Wielding the Dagger: The Marinekorps Flandern and the German War | place = | publisher = Praeger/Greenwood | pages = 91 | year = 2003 | doi = | isbn = 0313324751
*Citation | first = C.H. | last = Lightoller | author-link = Charles Lightoller | title = Titanic and other ships | place = | publisher = I. Nicholson and Watson | url = http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301011h.html | year = 1935 | doi = | isbn =
*Citation | first = Gordon | last = Williamson | author-link = | title = German E-Boats 1939-45 | place = | publisher = Osprey Publishing | pages = 3 | year = 2002 | doi = | isbn = 1841764450


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