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...
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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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A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated...
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A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive...
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The Brave-class fast patrol boats were a class of two gas turbine motor torpedo boats (MTBs) that were the last of their type for the Royal Navy (RN)...
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trawler Motor Launch Fairmile A motor launch Fairmile B motor launch Harbour Defence Motor Launch Motor torpedo boats Vosper 73 ft motor torpedo boat Fairmile...
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Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy (category World War II torpedo boats)
18 motor torpedo "short boats" between 60 ft (18 m) and 72 feet (22 m) long. These could typically maintain 40 knots and were armed with two torpedo tubes...
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the commandos on board, Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Newman. A motor torpedo boat (a 70 ft Vosper, MTB 74), commanded by Sub-Lieutenant Michael Wynn, had two...
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Camper and Nicholsons (section Motor yachts)
507 Gay Corsair, . They also built Motor torpedo boats This included MTB numbers 28 to 30 under subcontract to Vospers. They converted the passenger steamers...
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Company at the yard at Woolston, England. In 1966 the company merged with Vosper & Company. The combined company continued production at Woolston, and the...
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Royal Air Force Marine Branch (section Boats and ships)
High Speed Launch (HSL), based on the elongated hull of a 64 ft (20 m) Motor Torpedo Boat the RAF 100 was designed to have a maximum speed of 35 knots...
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yacht owned by the Gucci family". Boat International. Retrieved 4 August 2022. list of large sailing yachts, Boat International Media list of large sailing...
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1939. London: Chatham publishing. p. 445. ISBN 1-86176-023-X. "Germany torpedo boat-captured". Warshipsww2.Eu. Archived from the original on 2014-10-07....
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October 2013. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (L) "Italian motor torpedo boats Yugoslav". Warshipsww2. Archived from the original on 11 September...
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sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1944. For the torpedoing of HMS Nabob see 30 September 1944 Rohwer, Jürgen; Gerhard Hümmelchen...
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London. 26 May 1942. col C, p. 3. "Norlantic". Uboat. 16 February 2011. "Torpedo Boat Seeadler". Wehrmachy-history.com. Retrieved 13 May 2013. "Tolken". Uboat...
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History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 4 January 2012. "Italian motor torpedo boats MS-11". warshipsww2.eu. Archived from the original on 10 September...
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White 73'-class motor torpedo boat was sunk off Dover, Kent by Kriegsmarine surface vessels. HMS MTB 237 Royal Navy World War II: The Vosper 72'-class...
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"Japanese Oilers". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 10 August 2014. "Soviet torpedo bomber victories during WWII". Sovietempire.com. Retrieved 10 April 2019...
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apjjf.org. Retrieved 8 November 2022. Melia, Tamara Moser, "Damn the Torpedoes": A Short History of U.S. Naval Mine Countermeasures, 1777-1991, Washington...
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