Info on German E-boats wanted

Hello,

I am trying to find out more about the service and campaigns of German E boats and there crews but am finding it very hard. Sites concerned with the Kriegsmarine either go on about big ships like the Bismarck or are simply concerned with U boats.. can anyone point me

The best thing I have seen on S-boat operations is the predictably named _Die deutschen Schnellboote im zweiten Weltkrieg_ by Gerhard Huemmelchen (Verlag E.S. Mittler & Son, 1996). It covers S-boat operations in every theatre and every year. It has 257 pages and 24 pages of photographs. Alas, it's out of print. AIUI, Harald Fock's _Die deutschen Schnelleboote 1914-1945_, which is in print, is a pretty standard work, but it may be more of a design history than an 's-boats in action' type of book.

In English, Tarrant's _Last Year of the Kriegsmarine_ has some info on S-boat ops in 1944-1945. ISTR reading a decent enough book on S-boat ops in relation to D-Day some years back. Looking at the illo of Tent's _E-boat Alert_ on Amazon, either it was something else, or else the Airlife edition had a different cover from the USNI one.

Out of the first page of results on Google for 'schnellboote 1939', http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/km/sboot/sfl- frames.htm looks be the most interesting in that it has lists of ships sunk by S-boats and S-boats lost.

HTH,

Thank you, I've found quite a good site here: http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/ index.html which deals with the Kriegsmarine in some detail and the ships section has some information on E boats (or indeed S boats). Other than the armament/technical side I am interested in the sort of operations they were involved in and what service aboard such a vessel was like. I've found out quite a bit of what I was after, except for what life was like for the crew, but the overall picture and abit of imagination gives quite a good suggestion of this.

Some years ago I read a book about British MTB operations in the English Channel. Had a lot of information about encounters with their German counterparts and what both sides were up to at the time. Perhaps the MTB's could be another line of investigation for S-boat information.