Coastal Forces Veterans

This probably explains why there is so little info about this MTB Flotilla (disbanded after only a year and apparently not much action) : "Motor Torpedo Boats (M.T.Bs) In June 1943 three flotillas of Vosper 72 ft. Motor Torpedo Boats were commissioned in Bombay and Calcutta. Later 22 boats of t...

Hi, I'm looking for info on/photos of lend-lease Annapolis Vospers used by the Royal Indian Navy. I found one pic on the IWM site showing MTB 281 and two sister boats. Apparently these MTBs belonged to the 17th Flotilla. For some reason there do not seem to be (m)any pics of these particular vessels...

To my delight I noticed today that the IWM photos I was looking for have been digitised in the mean time. I get the impression that many other interesting MTB pics have also been digitised recently. I suggest using search words "MTB" and "Leghorn".

Regards,

Arjan

I happened across a thread on a Packard engine found in a scrapyard in Malta: http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?19555-Is-this-an-MTB-engine http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu279/ArjanWiskerke/Annapolis/Packard_zps372bb9b4.jpg This pic seems to show the same Jacob's Lend-lease Vospers as in...

Some nice shots of American built Annapolis Vospers MTB 375, 376 and 378:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/us-te ... o+boats+US

Arjan

The IWM have been steadily digitising more of their photographs, so if you keep checking back you may eventually find these online. A 27452–A 27455 along with others already published on the site are by the same photographer, Lt F A Hudson, so I'm not sure why if they digitise items in batches, the...

Thanks for the pic, it's clearer than the one I've got. I think I would like to build MTB 378 in its later guise, that is with the twin Vickers guns replaced by the twin Oerlikon: http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu279/ArjanWiskerke/Annapolis/120596001_zps2160b4fc.jpg I don't know if MTB 375 and 3...

Hi, I'm new on this board and I'm looking for photos of the lend-lease Vospers I can use for my build. Unfortunately, photos of Jacob's and Annapolis lend-lease Vospers appear to be pretty rare. I like to combine my love for history and modelling. Here's my build, not much progress so far but that i...