For five days the ship’s company had worked hard to get their ML ready for commissioning within the week. Naval stores, mess traps, galley stores, foul, weather gear, ammunition, life jackets, signals equipment – it was amazing how much material …Continue reading
This account from Issue 88 December 1996 by an ex Coastal Forces “regular”, though not a ‘wartime’ story, shows that even in peacetime RN personnel do still face hazards beyond the reach of all our Health and Safety Regulations. Fred Henley portrays, …Continue reading
The following is an account of one of our Motor Launches ML 263. MLs were employed in a variety of ways, from desperate actions like the St Nazaire raid, clandestine work, to minesweeping and minelaying. Their strength was their silence …Continue reading
This second part of Coastal Forces in India illustrates the valuable work carried out by MLs, mainly of the Royal Indian Navy. Ken Gadsdon The second instalment of a report on Royal Indian Navy Coastal Forces by Lieut Comdr T.H.L MacDonald DSC …Continue reading
These stories were written by veterans for publication in CFVA’s quarterly magazine. The great majority of Coastal Forces activities occurred in Home waters and in the Mediterranean and therefore there were relatively few members with experience of ‘business’ elsewhere. The …Continue reading