Coastal Forces was a division of the Royal Navy established during World War II. It consisted of small coastal defence craft such as motor launches, submarine chasers, air-sea rescue launches, motor g
The hull
This special alloy CW engine remained in 2007, but had been removed by 2011
The commander of a New Zealand Fairmile looking through a small coloured disc which allowed him to look into the sky for enemy planes without damaging his eyes
Motor gunboat
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The motor gunboat was a small, high-speed British military vessel of the Second World War, which was armed with a mix of guns, in contrast to the physically similar motor torpedo boat, whose main offe
MGB 314, a Fairmile C motor gun boat, during World War II
MGB 66 at speed with the crew at action stations, off the coast of Scotland
The gas turbine from MGB 2009 (formerly MGB 509)
MGB 81 at Gosport