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And when the other boats of the 10th Flotilla MTB arrived in Kastellorizo​​?

MGB 646 War Activities 22/10/43 MGB 645, MGB 646 and MGB 647 render assistance to the Greek destroyer Adrias, mined in the Aegean This reference indicates that the MGB 19th flotilla only arrived in Alexandria to go to the Aegean Sea on October 24. So when they arrived at the MGB Kastellorizo ​​and ...

Good day. To the previous issue of MTB-313 I want to attach a question about boats of the same 10th Flotilla MTB 266 and MTB-315 - which German ships they attacked and sank in the Bay of Alinda morning 15.11.1943.

Please help with the details of the battles the British MTBs and MGB and American PTs with German F-barges 27/03/1944 and 24/25.04.1944 at Vado.

Link, in 1945 at the 28th MTB Flotilla Adriatic torpedoes sank many F-barge. These barges very little sediment, making them virtually invulnerable to torpedoes with a contact fuze. Torpedoes with which fuse used MTB 28th Flotilla?

There is also a very detailed account of that action of MTB 670 and MGB 643 in Rover Reynolds book " Dog Boats at War " page 234 where he records the later information from German records of the action , and also a letter had received much later from a Yugoslav diving instructor re the si...

For an attack on enemy forces in the Planinski channel on 12 Apr 1945 Temporary Lieutenant Eric Hewitt RNVR DSC Able Seaman Thomas Conway C/JX 559543 RN MID Able Seaman Henry Harrison C/JX 542116 RN MID Temporary Sub-Lieutenant James Oliver Young RNVR MID Means results in a German ship made ​​it MT...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/claude-holloway-mtb-commander-who-became-a-hero-during-the-bari-harbour-disaster-7723189.htm It says here Back in action, Holloway distinguished himself when on 16 April 1945, as flotilla commanding officer of the 28th in HM MTB 409, he attacked a convoy ...

The National Archive has an account of the sinking of MTB 220 by one of its crew. This has not been digitised but a copy could be ordered on-line. Here is the link : http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details?uri=C7429601 Unfortunately, for me it is problematic. Let us hope that some...

Trying to reconstruct the course of this action. With the German and Croatian versions I know. Lacking only English descriptions best report.

13 April 45 British motor torpedo boats MTB-670 and MTB-697 torpedoed and sunk the torpedo boat TA-45. The London Gazette entry for the second of actions listed may be read online by clicking the link provided. The actual citation reads: There is a report on this action? Participated in the action ...

There is also a photo of MGB 646 and a photo of a `Taffy' Hook on MGB 645.

MGB 646 - off Greece.jpg

MGB 647 - off Greece.jpg

What kind of gun aft at gunboats?

Thank you. Tell me why ML-130 in the last battle was with 3-pound Mk-1 Hotchkiss? I saw a photo of ML-134 same flotilla with 2-pound Rolls-Royce in front of the superstructure and the ML-462 with Oerlikon front and aft superstructure. Were at ML-130 Oerlikon?

English coastal positions and night "Beaufighter" reported early in the fight back in 01.43, but the ML-130 help no one came. To the battlefield RAF rescue boat arrived only to 05.00, even though it was only six miles from the entrance to Grand Harbour. Why from La Valletta nobody sent to ...

In German, the report says that prisoners with ML-130 told the three outputs ML-126 and -130 on patrol. The report referred to the Maltese command only two output ML until May 7. And equipment for trawling ML installed immediately or was installed in Malta?

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...