Coastal Forces Veterans

just an update on MTB 341 , I've not found any confirmation that it became a Canadian Air Force HSL. I did find info that it was transferred to the RAF becoming HSL 341. I got the record card of HSL 341 from the microfilm held at the RAF Museum and it shows in to be an ex-MTB with a Packard engine, ...

excellent!!! thank you so much for that. Now I just have to find a picture of her.

J

I'm struggling to find any details of the wartime activities of MTB 341. There is just very basic information of U-boat.net saying she was built in Canada and commissioned in the Royal Navy on the 1st of May 1942. It then shows her being transferred to the RAF as an ASR in 1943 and decommissioned in...

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6 of the crew of M.T.B.218 were lost when it was sunk in August of 1942. 1 body was recovered and 5 men were missing presumed killed. Of the 5 missing crew members, 3 have their names recorded on the Chatham Naval Memorial and 2 have theirs on the Portsmouth Naval memorial. Can anyone tell me why th...

thank you, that's one ticked off , the others are proving hard to locate. I expected to have a problem with 36 as it spent most of the war as a training ship at St Christopher in Fort William, but the others were all fairly active.

Hello, I'm busy working on a book regarding the M.T.Bs which were "adopted" during Warship Week in WW2. I am looking for photos for publication of the following craft M.T.Bs 36, 38, 52, 82, 91 and 341. Any help is appreciated and will be credited in the book.
thank you,
J