Postby Pioneer » Fri Apr 12, 2013 8:56 pm
‘Bloodhound’ was built by Vosper to the Admiralty order of CP BR 8A/28281/37 in October 1937. She was designated as an ‘MTDV’ (mobile torpedo discharge vessel). She was built to a 68ft design having a single 21” trainable Torpedo tube mounted amidships just aft of a small wheelhouse.
She was powered by 2 French Lorraine ‘Orion’ petrol engines of 1600bhp giving her a max speed 25 knts. Used solely as a Torpedo discharge test craft, she was wrecked on the 31 Jan 1943 at Bincleaves and declared a total loss.
There was a second ‘Bloodhound’ (built by Thorneycroft – Singapore) she was lost when Japanese forces overran the area in 1942
There is an outline drawing of the Vosper craft in 'Allied Coastal Forces of WW2" Volume 2 by John Lambert & Al Ross (page 31) - a good Library should have a copy