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Thank you. What combat tasks performed ML-126 and -130 in Malta?

Thank you. I have a report flotilla commander E-boats Kemnade about this fight and almost all said the same with this report. The Germans only S-61 received one hit 47-mm projectile and the next night with the same boats again came to lay mines off the coast of Malta. I wanted to know details of the...

Another eight crew members were taken prisoner by the Germans. Maybe after the war, they told about the details of the fight? How was armed with ML-130 in the last battle? May have his photo?

What known details of the death ML-130 in Malta 07/05/1942?

How long did the battle of the MGB-88, -87 and -91 with S-111 15 March 1942? Sub-Lt. Phillips , Alun Stanley, with MGB-87, who commanded the boarding party of three people seized S-111, received an award for this fight and continued to fight against the Germans in the North Sea. How to be saved with...

Thank you very much.
Perhaps report commander MTB-495 is here

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.u ... i=C6422899

but I can not see it, as well as report on the MTB-220.

The section on this incident in the book Home Waters MTBs & MGBs by Len Reynolds reads as follows: On that night three groups of E-hoats set out to attack the convoys; they were cleverly dispersed to different areas in order to stretch the thinly spread resources of available escorts. The first...

Thanks for the clarification. So MTB-495 was damaged by fire E-boats. All of them were armed with 2x1 20mm cannon and one machine gun.
Went there ever again after this fight MTB-495 combat missions?

Thank you very much. Now move this battle completely understandable, since I have a report CO MTB 451. the second unit engaged in 'a fierce chase' during which one E-boat was hit by a 6-pounder shell, and 495 was hit in the engine room. It remains to determine who struck MTB-495. 6-pound shells fire...

Read the assumption that the S-199 was destroyed by fire guns of the fort Toung Sands. In its report on this Zimalkovski not write. Maybe it's the fort fired and injured MTB-495?

Thank you again. I'll wait for information from you.

Thank you very much. This is very useful information. It is unclear just how was damaged MTB-495. Maybe he collided with the frigate "Seymour" when E-boats attacked with torpedoes?

MTB_495 British Power Boat Co, Hythe Hampshire 15/11/44 Wartime Activities 22nd MTB Flotilla Based at Lowestoft 22-3/1/45 The Eighth S Boat Flotilla (KKpt. Zymalkowski) (S 194, S 196, S 197, S 199 and S 701) reach the Thames Estuary northeast of North Foreland and are in action with British escorts...

I haven't been able to find anything more about this particular attack. German raider KOMET departed Cherbourg early on the 27th, escorted by torpedo boats T.7, T.4, and T.11 and minesweepers M.10 and M.153. The cruiser spent the day in Le Havre and departed that night with the three torpedo boats,...

Another question. A report of the fight the Germans write that fought with the MGB, although there is no MGB was not. There is a picture of MTB-447 without torpedo tubes. MTB can in this form out on patrol against E-boats? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249607/Spitfires-sea-saved-580-000-g...

Germans wrote CONFIDENTIAL 12 May 1942 2. Own Situation ; The 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla had a brief brush with British PT boats off Dunkirk on route "Rosa" during the night of 11 May while en route to Hook of Holland. A pincer attack attempted by 4 British PT boats was detected in time and...

What types of projectiles shot from 2-pound "pom - pom"?

Thank you. And of 2-pounders what projectiles fired?

What types of shells "Oerlikon" British gunners used MGB?

Here are photos of MGB-8 and -13.
http://www.yalumba.co.uk/Framesets/Brit ... 0MGBs.html
At the stern 20 mm "Oerlikon"? Very similar to the 2-pound "Rolls-Royce".

I haven't been able to find anything more about this particular attack. I presume this was an earlier passage of Komet through the Channel prior to the attempt on the 13th/14th October 1942, when it was torpedoed by MTB 236 under the command of Sub Lieutenant Robert Drayson. Yes. Drayson torpedoed ...

What is known about the participation in combat 23/01/1945 MTB-495 and MTB-446? I only know that MTB-495 rammed some E-boat and was very badly damaged, one person died of his crew. MTB .495, surface action. CALDER, George, Able Seaman, C/JX 317839, killed. http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1945-01J...

Thank you. How were armed MGB-9 and -13 13.05.1942?

I read a report the commander of the 5th flotilla torpedoboats Schmidt. He wrote that his flagship Zeeadler early in the fight for more than 15 minutes led to a gunfight MTB (?), Who was in charge of the 40-mm and 20-mm guns. It was probably one of the MGB.
And there War Activities MGB-9?

a second action on 13/14 May involving MTBs 219, 220 and 221 and "two MGBs of the 2nd Flotilla". Yes. This is the same battle. MGB-9 and -13 participate in it? Official information about it is not found. Probably because the group was the senior officer at MTB-220 died in battle with the ...

Read in one forum that MGB-9 in combat German ships 13/05/1942 received such severe damage that more did not go out to sea, but information about casualties among the crew was not found. In this day of losses RN including one who died sailor from the MGB-13. These MGB participated together in one fi...

Thank you. Night 28/11/1941 British tried to intercept the raider "Komet", who was returning to Germany from the Atlantic. Dover came two groups MTB - MTB-218, -219, -56 and -221 and MTB-44, -45, -47 and -48. Out of Ramsgate MGB-14 and -41. MTB-221, -56 and -48 returned harbor because of m...

Germans write https://archive.org/stream/wardiarygermann311942germ/wardiarygermann311942germ_djvu.txt March 14, 1942 CONFIDENTIAL According to the radio intercept service a German force was located by Dover at 0330 eight miles north of Calais on southwest course,, and motor gunboats were ordered to ...

S.Roskill of the battle in writing The German traffic moved along the North Sea and Channel coasts almost entirely by night, and in short stages from one port to the next. Full advantage was taken of bad weather, and for specially important movements very powerful and numerous escorts were provided....

Description of the battle from the German source While en route from Flushlng-Le Havre under escort of the 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla, the 2nd Motor Minesweeper Flotilla, and vessels of the 2nd Minesweeper Flotilla, ship "28" was attacked by light enemy naval forces between 0330 and 0710. A...