Coastal Forces Veterans

Many thanks for this, John. My research to date pointed to either MTB 22 or MTB 24 being the craft that my subject able seaman crewed on. He told his mother that he assisted in the shooting down of a bomber with a Lewis gun on an MTB and was also present during the Dunkirk evacuation. He was quite s...

I am interested in the activities of these two boats in May/Jun 1940. I understand they were both 4th Flotilla and based in Felixstowe. MTB 22 was in Portsmouth on 1st May and operated from Dover and Harwich until 8th May, when she was accompanied by MTB24 and MTB25 from Dover to Harwich. On 12th Ma...