British Motor Torpedo Boat 1939-45

Of all the sea bailies fought by the British during the Second World War, the closest-fought were the last little ships of the Coastal Forces and their Axis counterparts. These boats came in a variety of types: Motor Torpedo Boats. Motor Gun Boars, Motor Launches and several other variants. All shared the ability to move quickly - often silently, to html virtually unseen, and to strike quickly, then escape in the darkness. Too small and too numerous to warrant individual names, these craft were distinguished by their identifying pennant numbers. Of all these types, the Motor Torpedo Boats were the real hunters, harassing enemy coastal convoys in the English Channel, the North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Adriatic. While the battleships of the f tome Reel spent much of the war at anchor in Scapa Flow, these small craft were waging their own private war, lighting in craft that combined grace, vulnerability and menace. Veterans speak of the sheer exhilaration of cutting through the waves at speeds of 40 knots, then the sheer confusing terror of lighting actions that lasted seconds, but where a false move could lead to the instant destruction of boat and crew.


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