E-boat was the Western Allies' designation for the fast attack craft of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II; E-boat could refer to a patrol craft from an armed motorboat to a large To
An E-boat flying the white flag, after surrender at the coastal forces base HMS Beehive, Felixstowe, May 1945
Italian MS 472, post-war configuration
This is one of the S-7-class boats, S-13. The Chinese Navy operated three boats of this class.
The Fairmile D motor torpedo boat was a type of British motor torpedo boat and motor gunboat, conceived by entrepreneur Noel Macklin of Fairmile Marine and designed by naval architect Bill Holt for th
E-boat
…combat against the fast and powerful S-boats, the Royal Navy created its motor gunboat (MGB) force and later developed better-matched MTBs, using the Fairmile 'D' hull design. This design was chosen because the theatre of operations of such boats was expected to be the North Sea, English Channel and the Western…
The Fairmile D motor gun boat MGB 606
6-pounder (57 mm) guns with Molins autoloader were mounted on some of the D-class MTBs
Back view of the same gun