Hello Julie

Thank you for your kind words regarding the new look web site. As you can see, we have been busy creating a new format for existing material from the former site, whilst also adding new content, and we hope to add more articles and features in the coming months.

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We have carried out some additions and amendments to the forum. We have added a new forum Fast Patrol Boats under the Coastal Forces Craft section. This is intended to cover the period of post-war development in general up to the demise of Coastal Forces as a formal branch of the Royal Navy in 1957....

Having been online for over two years now, it was felt the existing forum topics were not serving the forum and its posts as well as they might, and that the time had come for a comprehensive overhaul of the board, to improve its usability, and help provide a better experience for readers. The major...

The following is offered by way of help & advice when posting to the forum: Subjects for Posts When entering a title for your post in the subject title box, please try to keep the title brief yet descriptive, avoiding vague or ambiguous subject titles e.g. use a specific title like MBG 658 at Ko...

Hello skiphaddon Welcome to the forum. I have a small amount of information on ML 269, though Mr Brian Holmes who holds a very good collection of information on most Coastal Forces boats may be able to supply you with more information once he sees your post. Briefly then: ML 269 was a Fairmile B Mot...

Hello John Just for your information, you need to keep the %20 in the url—though browsers will put it back in anyway—as you are not allowed spaces in web file names, whether html or image files. Sea Hawk either needs to be written as seahawk or better still sea-hawk as Google and other search engine...

Hello John Welcome to the forum and thank you for posting details of your website which are very interesting. My father served aboard ML296 in Freetown, where they also experienced boat explosions. Are the two photos at the bottom of the Photo Page 1 on the Mosquito page, the engine room and radio r...

I wonder how much these boats were bought for at the end of the war? Hello Pat I came across this insightful piece from a Canadian newspaper, regarding the sell off of Fairmile Bs which casts a bit of light on the haste with which resources were disposed of after the war. Demands Inquiry In Fairmil...

Hi Pat My father was also at Mayina during August to October 1945 and again between December 1945 and February 1946. Mayina was actually a joint forces transit camp at Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). I believe he was there as part of a large build up of Allied Forces for the planned invasion of Jap...