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    The 29th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla was a motor torpedo boat (MTB) flotilla crewed by Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) reservists in service with the Coastal...
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    guns, in contrast to the physically similar motor torpedo boat (MTB), whose main offensive weapon were torpedoes. The small size of the MGBs, and their high...
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    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...
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    specialized naval force of well-armed, small and fast motor launch (ML) and motor torpedo boat (MTB) flotillas, primarily crewed by members of the Royal Canadian...
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    Destroyer Flotilla: 29th Destroyer Flotilla: British 1st Escort Flotilla British 2nd Escort Flotilla British 3rd Escort Flotilla British 4th Escort Flotilla British...
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    German submarine U-66 (1940) (category U-boats commissioned in 1941)
    and damaged two British motor torpedo boats. She was a member of four wolfpacks. U-66 was the seventh most successful U-boat in World War II. On 6 May...
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    7 cruisers, 13 torpedo boats, 2 gunboats) and a number of ships from the "Siberian Military Flotilla" (2 minelayers, 12 torpedo boats and 5 gunboats)...
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    Officer (Operations) Staff Officer (Plans) Staff Signal Officer Staff Torpedo Officer Maintenance Captain Area Combined Headquarters Chatham & HMS Wildfire...
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  • German submarine U-81 (1941) (category U-boats commissioned in 1941)
    one man was killed, by the torpedo explosion. U-81 reached La Spezia on 1 December, where she joined the 29th U-boat Flotilla. Her next patrol was uneventful...
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  • German submarine U-47 (1938) (category Missing U-boats of World War II)
    German U-boats of World War II. U-47 disappeared in March 1941, and the 45 crewmembers are presumed to have died. In 2016, one of the faulty torpedoes shot...
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  • German submarine U-573 (category U-boats commissioned in 1941)
    September 1941 she commenced operations with that flotilla. She was transferred to the 29th Flotilla, also for operations, on 1 January 1942. She was sold...
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    Northern Fleet (redirect from Kola Flotilla)
    another patrol boat, another submarine, and two minesweepers joined the flotilla at Soroka in September 1933. Polyarny became the flotilla's main base, and...
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    with the swells. Commonly, the LCAs of a flotilla would form line-ahead behind a motor launch or Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) that would guide them to their designated...
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    R 4, R 6, R 7, R 8, R 115, R 187, RA 10 (former English motor torpedo boat), and RD-boats: RD 116, RD 117, RD 118, RD 119, RD 120, RD 121, RD 122, RD...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese destroyer Kawakaze (1936)
    she probably torpedoed and sank the heavy cruiser USS Northampton. On Patrol duty off Guadalcanal, Kawakaze helped to sink the torpedo boat PT-44, then...
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  • German submarine U-559 (category U-boats commissioned in 1941)
    with the 1st U-boat Flotilla, undergoing training before being declared operational on 1 June 1941. She moved to the 29th U-boat Flotilla on 15 April 1942...
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    passed Cherbourg, at which point they were joined by a flotilla of torpedo boats. The torpedo boats were led by Kapitän zur See Erich Bey, aboard the destroyer...
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  • Melbreak and Brissenden. Additional protection from E-boats was provided by Motor Gun Boat flotillas. SS Katowice HMS Boxer - fighter direction ship HMS...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian torpedo boat Pegaso (1936)
    Pegaso was a torpedo boat and an escort aviso of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy). She was one of the most successful Axis anti-submarine warships...
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    German submarine U-617 (category U-boats commissioned in 1941)
    transferred to the 7th flotilla on 1 September 1942 and moved on to the 29th flotilla on 1 December 1942. German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the...
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    German submarine U-455 (category U-boats sunk by mines)
    U-boat Flotilla, a training outfit. She was transferred to the 7th flotilla for operations at the beginning of 1942 and again to the 29th flotilla in...
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  • ships before joining the Motor Torpedo Boat Command and later becoming the commander of the 29th Canadian Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla of the Royal Navy at...
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  • only naval units in Sicily in July 1943 were twenty torpedo boats of the 3rd and 7th torpedo boat squadrons. Besides the three major commands listed below...
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    German submarine U-755 (category U-boats commissioned in 1941)
    Kapitänleutnant Walter Göing. U-755 served with 9th U-boat Flotilla in the Atlantic, and later with 29th U-boat Flotilla operated in the Mediterranean Sea. German...
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  • German submarine U-652 (category U-boats commissioned in 1941)
    submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic. U-652 was transferred to 29th U-boat Flotilla based at La Spezia, Italy on 1 January 1942. She was scuttled on...
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  • German submarine U-458 (category U-boats commissioned in 1941)
    as part of the 3rd Flotilla where she stayed for only four months, before transferring to Mediterranean operations with 29th Flotilla on 1 November 1942...
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    German submarine U-51 (1938) (category U-boats commissioned in 1938)
    combat patrols. She joined the 7th U-boat Flotilla on 6 August 1938. She was to remain a part of this flotilla until her loss. The first of U-51's four...
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    Albrecht Brandi (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    the Mediterranean Sea where he was placed under the command of the 29th U-boat Flotilla. His mission in the Mediterranean theater of operations was to help...
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    SM UB-14 (category U-boats commissioned in 1915)
    as a part of the Kaiserliche Marine's Pola Flotilla. During her first patrol in the Adriatic, UB-14 torpedoed and sank the Amalfi. While traveling to Constantinople...
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    during exercises with HMS Ark Royal (R09) an error resulted in a practice torpedo becoming embedded in the submarine's casing. Following an 18-month refit...
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