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Specifications from Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. and Motor Gunboat 658 The Fairmile D motor torpedo boat was a type of British motor torpedo boat (MTB) and motor gunboat (MGB), [ 1 ] conceived by entrepreneur Noel Macklin of Fairmile Marine and designed by naval architect Bill Holt for the Royal Navy .
Basic parts of an outboard motor. An outboard motor is a propulsion system for boats, consisting of a self-contained unit that includes engine, gearbox and propeller or jet drive, designed to be affixed to the outside of the transom. They are the most common motorised method of propelling small watercraft.
The Vosper 73 foot Motor Torpedo Boat was a mid-twentieth century British motor torpedo boat (MTB) designed by Vosper that served in the Royal Navy Coastal Forces during the Second World War. At 73 ft (22 m) long they were considered small boats compared to longer designs such as the Fairmile D .
The G-5 was a Soviet motor torpedo boat design built before and during World War II.Approximately 300 were built, of which 73 were lost during the war. Four were exported to the Spanish Republican Navy during the Spanish Civil War and others were transferred to North Korea after the war.
HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 is the torpedo boat used when Lieutenant Augustus Agar earned a Victoria Cross for carrying out a raid on Soviet warships in Kronstadt and sinking the cruiser Oleg. It was one of a large series of small, fast, shallow draught Coastal Motor Boats used during the First World War .
Camouflaged World War II MAS in the Mediterranean Sea. Motoscafo armato silurante (torpedo-armed motorboat), alternatively Motoscafo antisommergibili (anti-submarine motorboat) and commonly abbreviated as MAS, was a class of fast torpedo-armed vessels used by the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) during World War I and World War II.
A motorboat with an outboard motor. A motorboat or powerboat is a boat that is exclusively powered by an engine; faster examples may be called "speedboats".. Some motorboats are fitted with inboard engines, others have an outboard motor installed on the rear, containing the internal combustion engine, the gearbox and the propeller in one portable unit.
HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 (1916) on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.View from the stern showing the torpedo launching ramp. Coastal Motor Boat was a small high-speed British torpedo boat used by the Royal Navy in the First World War and up to end of the Second World War.