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MGB 314, a Fairmile C motor gun boat, during World War II. The motor gunboat (MGB) was a small, high-speed British military vessel of the Second World War, which was armed with a mix of guns, in contrast to the physically similar motor torpedo boat (MTB), whose main offensive weapon were torpedoes.
The Fairmile C motor gun boat was a type of motor gunboat designed by Norman Hart of Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy.An intermediate design, twenty-four boats were ordered on 27 August 1940 from Fairmile Marine in kit form and were assembled at multiple boatbuilders' yards and completed in 1941; they were initially rated as Motor Launches (ML), but received the designation Motor Gun Boats ...
Armament for gunboat configuration as fitted to MGB 658 by the end of the war. 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 ...
HM Motor Gun Boat 501 was a motor gunboat operated by Royal Navy Coastal Forces during the Second World War.The design, prepared by Bill Holt of the DNC's Boat Section, was unusual for a British light coastal forces' boat at the time in that it was of composite construction, whereas most MTBs and Motor Launches were entirely wooden-hulled.
MGB 75, a British Power Boat Company motor gun boat at HMS Beehive, Felixstowe. During World War II the British Power Boat Company built large numbers of motor torpedo boats, high-speed motor launches, and motor gun boats (previously known as Motor Anti-Submarine Boats [3]), being credited with saving the lives of over 13,000 service personnel.
55 ft (17 m) Stepped-hull motor torpedo boat - sole survivor [38] 1941 Thornycroft British Military Powerboat Trust [39] Intention to get her seaworthy MGB 81: 71.5 ft (21.8 m) Motor gunboat 1942 British Power Boat Company Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust [40] Fully operational, based at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. MTB 71
The steam gun boats were conceived to answer the seeming need for a craft which was large enough to put to sea in rough weather and which could operate both as a "super-gunboat" and a torpedo carrier, combining the functions of the motor gunboat (MGB) and motor torpedo boat (MTB) in the same fashion as did the German E-boats.
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 .