A motor torpedo boat is a fast torpedo boat, especially of the mid 20th century. The motor in the designation originally referred to their use of petrol engines, typically marinised aircraft engines o
Israeli MTB formation, c. 1967
MTBs in the Mediterranean, February 1945
British Power Boat 72 ft MTB 476 tied up at the Coastal Forces base st Haslar on 15 August 1944
MTB-460 of the Royal Canadian Navy
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
Motor torpedo boat
…boat squadrons. German diesel-powered torpedo boats of the Second World War were called S-boote (Schnellboote, "fast boats") by the Kriegsmarine and "E-boats" by the Allies. These large craft (well over 100 ft overall) were not known as motor torpedo boats at the time, but later have been grouped with them…
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.