HM Coastal Motor Boat 4
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HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 is the torpedo boat used when Lieutenant Augustus Agar earned a Victoria Cross for carrying out a raid on Soviet warships in Kronstadt and sinking the cruiser Oleg.
HM CMB No 4 in Imperial War Museum London (1920)
HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 on display at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in October 2017.
Russian cruiser Oleg
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Oleg was the fourth and final Bogatyr-class protected cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy.
HM Coastal Motor Boat 4
…is the torpedo boat used when Lieutenant Augustus Agar earned a Victoria Cross for carrying out a raid on Soviet warships in Kronstadt and sinking the cruiser Oleg. It was one of a large series of small, fast, shallow draught Coastal Motor Boats used during the First World War. She was designed by John I. Thornycroft…
Oleg in April 1918