RN Motor Torpedo Boats: Fairmile D Class

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Brian James
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RN Motor Torpedo Boats: Fairmile D Class

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Fairmile D Class,HMS MTB 737 pictured with her sister ships at the U Boat Pens at Le Havre in September 1944.
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I hugely recommend "Dog Boats At War" as an excellent history of these splendid little warships. As a teenager the family lived in Devon very near Salcombe where we used to sail. A retired RN officer friend of my parents lived in a converted D boat there. Without the engines and huge fuel tanks these boats were cavernous as houseboats, but sadly suffered very badly from rot of every kind, they were not built to last.
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Fairmile D Class Motor Gun Boat HMS MGB 658 pictured at Bastai, Corsica in June 1944....She foundered en route from Malta to Alexandria on the 30th January 1946.
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