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British Power Boat MTB 494
  British Power Boat MTB 494, part of the 22nd MTB Flotilla, at speed

IN MEMORIAM

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On this day: 26th April

U/mm Jon Riis Sigurdsson (H.M.M.T.B. 711)

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them


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ANNIVERSARY

The Loss of MTB 671

The crew of MTB 671, believed to have been taken around the time of the boat's commissioning in May 1943. The officers shown in the photograph are known to include Petty Officer Joseph Buckley (back row second from left), Lieutenant Lawrence 'Larry' Toogood (back row sixth from left), and Lieutenant John Horley (back row seventh from left) © Jon Horley

Pointe de Barfleur, East of Cherbourg: 24th April 1944

This month sees the anniversary of the loss of MTB 671, sunk off Pointe de Barfleur, east of Cherbourg by a flotilla of three German Mõwe class torpedo boats. She was one of three boats from the 55th MTB Flotilla that were lying in wait for the German patrol, when the group came under a sustained attack. 671 was a Fairmile 'D' motor torpedo boat, one of the largest and heavily-armed of the Coastal Forces boats, with a crew of twenty-seven, all but two of which were lost in the action in the Channel. The only two survivors, Sub-Lieutenant Colin Morley, and Able Seaman Alfred Day spent several hours in the water, before being rescued by a Royal Navy frigate sent to look for survivors.

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If I Only Had Known  — Ken Forrester's account of the loss of MTB 671