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Motor torpedo boat. Motor Torpedo Boat. MTB 102, an experimental design, served in World War II. During the Dunkirk evacuation it acted as a temporary flagship. Israeli MTB formation, c. 1967. A motor torpedo boat is a fast torpedo boat, especially of the mid 20th century. The motor in the designation originally referred to their use of petrol ...
2 × 21 inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes. MTB 102 is one of few surviving motor torpedo boats that served with the Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy in the Second World War. She was built as a prototype, but was purchased and taken into service by the Admiralty. She was the smallest vessel to ever serve as a flagship for the Royal Navy.
Armour. Armour plate around the bridge. The Vosper 73 foot Motor Torpedo Boat was a mid-twentieth century British motor torpedo boat (MTB) designed by Vospers 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 harbour defence motor launch ( HDML) was a 72 ft (22 m) long British-designed motor vessel used for harbour defence during World War II. Nearly 500 were built by numerous Allied countries during the war. The HDML was designed by W J Holt at the Admiralty in early 1939. During the war HDMLs were constructed, mainly by yacht builders, in the ...
Amazon. (yacht) Amazon is a 102-foot (31 m) long screw schooner and former steam yacht built in 1885 at the private Arrow Yard of Tankerville Chamberlayne in Southampton. [1] [2] Designer Dixon Kemp intended her to be 'fast and a good seaboat' and her successful sea trials were recorded in the several editions of his definitive Yacht ...
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. During the First World War, following a suggestion from three junior officers of the Harwich destroyer force that small motor boats carrying a torpedo might be capable of travelling over the ...
The Bristol Classic Boat Company was founded in 1999 by company director Mark Rolt. It builds and restores traditional wooden sailing and motor vessels. [2] The company has rebuilt two Fairey marine Huntsmen motor cruisers and various yachts, in addition to carrying out refits of small craft and canal boats. In 2008 the Pegasus, a traditional ...
The British Power Boat Company was a British manufacturer of motor boats, particularly racing boats and later military patrol boats. History [ edit ] The company was formed on 30 September 1927 when Hubert Scott-Paine bought and renamed the Hythe Shipyard with the intention of transforming it into one of the most modern mass production boat ...