Coastal Forces Veterans

MGB_326 James A Silver Ltd, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire 18/8/41 For Operation Jubilee - Raid on Dieppe 19/8/42 MID TLt Francis Douglas Russell-Roberts RNVR DSM CMtrMch Robert Ringham Dawson C/MX72043 MID AB James Craig Carlyle C/JX260146 New Year Honours 1943 DSM TLSea Leslie Richard Jones D/JX137296 F...

HMS Racer was the RN base at Larne in Northern Ireland. On service certificates, Coastal Forces boats are often listed with the name of their associated base ship which would handle records, pay etc So you have two periods where you can see where she was based. Number flags were different during Wor...

It is in the right number sequence for an RML which looked like this

probably no more than in John Lamberts book

ML_544 Frank Curtis Ltd, Looe, Cornwall 10/42
Wartime Activities


Post War Fate
12/45 For disposal
Sold Yacht = Xrona

MGB 646 Risdon Beazley Ltd, Northam Bridge, Southampton 19/11/42 For assistance rendered to the Greek destroyer Adrias, mined in the Aegean 22/10/43 Greek War Cross 3rd Class Lt Bernard Louis Knight-Lachlan RNVR For destruction of an enemy tanker in Piraeus 8/10/44 MID TSLt Michael Gordon Roberts R...

MGB_333 Woodnut & Co Ltd, St Helens, Isle of Wight 16/10/41 For an action with E Boats off Smith’s Knoll 28/3/43 DSC TLt Donald Gould Bradford RNVR MID TSLt Frank Lambert Hewitt RNVR DSM LMtrMch Roland Desmond Gilbert P/MX98724 DSM LSea Joseph John Phillips P/BD/X1349 MID AB Victor Goldsmith C/J...

ML_149 Vosper, Portsmouth 20/2/41 Known Crew TLt W H Mitchell RNVR Commanding Officer 23/3/43 TMid Donald Clement Lefever RNVR HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Conrwall) 24/6/42 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) First Lieutenan...

ML_120 Aldous Successors Ltd, Brightlingsea 8/10/40 For services when attacked by dive bombers (Gazette Date - 27/12/40) MID Tel Jack Swan C/J101252 Birthday Honours 1943 MID TLt Edward Kerfoot Jones RNVR DSM Tel Laurence Lightwood C/WRX125 Known Crew TLt Edward Kerfoot Jones RNVR TSLt Frank Victor ...

MTB_46 J S White, Cowes Isle of Wight 23/06/41 Known Crew TSLt Paul Alured Berthon RNVR First Lieutenant MTB 30 09/40 Commanding Officer MTB 31 11/40 – 11/41 Commanding Officer MTB 46 23/03/42 Commanding Officer MTB 219 DSC 1941 MID 1940 HMS Hornet 1945 TLt J C Fearnley RNVR Commanding Officer 08/02...

MTB 681 Brooke Marine Ltd, Oulton Broad, Nr Lowestoft 20/7/43 For an action off the Dutch coast 9/6/44 DSC TLt Edward Stuart Forman RNVR MID TLt George Thomas Taylor RNVR DSM POMtrMch John Arthur Anthony Shenton P/MX79271 MID LMtrMch Stephen Hal Robert Jennings P/MX124989 DSM AB Harold Whittle P/JX2...

I may have more but we can start with this ML_579 James N Miller & Sons, East Shore, St Monance 3/6/43 Known Crew Lt James Bain RNVR Killed in action 26/10/43. Buried in Rhodes War Cemetery Joint Grave 6. B. 1 SLt John Michael Cooke RNVR Killed in action 26/10/43 Age 21 Son of Arthur George and ...

ML_563 Solent Shipyard, Salisbury Green, Nr Southampton 3/3/43 For Operation Dragoon - Landings in Southern France 8/44 DSM Sto1 Cyril Egerton P/KX144221 Known Crew TLt Thomas David Andrews RNVR Briefly in Command during commissioning AB Kenneth Hughes P/JX 386598 Died 29/9/44 cause unknown Age 20 S...

ML_122 A M Dickie & Sons, Bangor, North Wales & Tarbert Scotland 16/10/40 Known Crew TLt H M Coghlan RNVR Commanding Officer 5/4/43 TLt L E Maughan RNVR Commanding Officer 1/5/44 TSLt R G Wallis RNVR First Lieutenant 15/5/43 TSLt V T Hurley RNVR First Lieutenant 2/5/44 LSea John Wardropper T...

HDML_1398 Ekins, Christchurch, Dorset 6/43 Known Crew TLt S T Charlton RNVR (Commanding Officer 24/6/43 TLt D F Barton RNVR (Commanding Officer 3/45) TSLt W D T Newman RNVR 28/6/43 Wartime Activities 9/9/45 Operation Zipper – Invasion of Malaya. Post War Fate 7/47 Malay Government Particularly inter...

ML_182 Leonard Robinson, Tewkesbury 2/8/41 Known Crew TLt Ernest Selby Jones RNVR (Commanding Officer 4/44 – 7/45) Lt Fox RNVR (Commanding Officer 1944-45) TSLt Devon Ormond Close RNZNVR ML 182 17/4/45 HMNZS Cook (depot & training establishment, Wellington, NZ) SLt D P Snell Barlow Cook G Etheri...

MGB_632 Kris Cruisers (1934) Ltd, Isleworth 12/42 For an action off Terschelling 26/5/43 DSM Sto1 William Wilson P/KX155257 New Year Honours 1944 MID Tel James Dickinson P/JX234469 For an action off Smiths Knoll 24/10/43 MID ACMtrMch Sydney James William Byrne P/MX116251 For Operation Neptune - for ...

Medusa will be attending the Southampton Boat Show on September 23rd - 25th and will be openn to the public as well as doing a number of passes for people to view and photograph.

So if anyone is going there please come along and meet us.

MGB 334 A M Dickie & Sons, Bangor, North Wales 9/10/41 For an action with E Boats off the Dutch coast and for saving the crew of MGB 335 10/9/42 DSO Lt Ernest Michael Thorpe RN New Year Honours 1945 DSM AB George Houghton D/JX257772 Known Crew Lt Ernest Michael Thorpe RN (Commanding Officer) (Be...

Sad to see the current state of HDML 1301. There is an entry for her with pictures on the Medusa website. The text of which is below Brian Holmes (Coxswain HDML 1387) HDML_1301 Blackmore, Bideford, Devon 6/4/43 London Gazette 5/9/44 - For Operation Brassard of the landings on Elba 17/6/44 DSC Lt Pet...

ML_155 Woodnut & Co Ltd, Bembridge, Isle of Wight 11/12/40 Known Crew TLt J F C Wheeler RNVR Commanding Officer TLt A I F Kindell RNVR Commanding Officer 1944 - 45 TLt John Malcolm Hirst RNVR HMS Lauderdale TSLt ML 557, Commanding Officer HDML 1246 Winter 1944 – 45 Commanding Officer ML 480 1945...

MGB_330 Tough Bros Ltd, Teddington Wharf, Manor Road, Teddington 25/7/41 For an attack on an enemy convoy in the Dover Straits 6/8/42 MID TLt Derek Chappe Sidebottom RNVR MID AB Trevor Goodricke Strachey-Hawdon C/JX283257 For an action with E Boats in the Channel16/8/42 DSC TLt Derek Chappe Sidebott...

ML 155 Woodnut & Co Ltd, Bembridge, Isle of Wight 11/12/40 Known Crew TLt J F C Wheeler RNVR Commanding Officer TLt A I F Kindell RNVR Commanding Officer 1944–45 TLt John Malcolm Hirst RNVR HMS Lauderdale TSLt ML 557, Commanding Officer HDML 1246 Winter 1944–45 Commanding Officer ML 480 1945 Co...

Sorry, I missed MTB 407 MTB_407 Robert Jacob Inc, City Island, New York 30/8/44 For attacks on enemy shipping off Istria 7/2/45 MID TSLt Dennis Wyndham Hudson RNVR For a torpedo attack on an enemy convoy in the Gulf of Venice 12/4/45 DSC TLt Hubert Charles Houssemayne Du Boulay RNVR DSM AB John Fran...

MGB 505 Camper & Nicholson Gosport 5/43 For Operation Bridford - blockade running voyages from Sweden to the UK 10/43 - 3/44 OBE(Civ) Capt Herbert William Jackson MN MBE(Civ ChOff Philip Roland Legg MN DSC ChOff Edward Bourne Ruffman MN MBE(Civ) SndEng James Alexander Winton MN BEM(Civ) Bsn Pete...

MTB_476 British Power Boat Co, Hythe Hampshire For actions in the Plymouth area 7 - 8/44 MID AB Arthur Webb C/JX376400 For an action in the Nore area 10/10/44 MID TLt Paul Dudley Watkins RNVR MID AB Ronald Charles Sydney Burgess P/JX292203 MID AB William French Greatbatch P/JX176929 For an attack on...

ML_170 Aldous Successors Ltd, Brightlingsea 1/41 For minesweeping in the Northern Adriatic 4 -5/45 DSC TLt Ronald Harry Boulter RNVSR MID POMtrMch Walter Frederick Butler P/MX99044 Known Crew TLt Ronald Harry Boulter RNVSR SLt Wallington (1943) Mid W R Tyldesley (November 1943) POMtrMch Walter Frede...

MTB_490 British Power Boat Co, Hythe Hampshire 25/9/44 Known Crew TLt Herbert Gaskell BROWN RNVR First Lieutenant 1/42 – 2/43 then appointed to MTB 490 in command 25/1/44 Born 5/1/16 and died in Mid Warwickshire 8/98 TSLt Graham Alexander Wilson RNVR First Lieutenant MGB 604 1/2/44, Third Officer MT...

MTB_84 Vosper, Portsmouth and Porchester 13/7/42 For Operation Husky - Invasion of Sicily DSM LSea Dennis William Charles Evetts P/SSX26584 MID TLt Granville Roland Smith RNVR MID Sto1 Peter William Lifford D/KX127226 For services during an air attack in the Mediterranean 30/5/44 DSC TSLt Fred Alan ...

ML_283 H J Percival, Horning, Norfolk 25/9/41 Wind up of the war in Europe (Gazette Date - 11/12/45) MID Tlt Arthur Bowen-Gotham RNVR MID LMtrMch Francis Richard Brierley P/MX636184 Known Crew MID Tlt Arthur Bowen-Gotham RNVR MID LMtrMch Francis Richard Brierley P/MX636184 Wartime Activities 25th ML...