Raid on Kronstadt
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The raid on Kronstadt was an attack by Royal Navy coastal motor boats and Royal Air Force aircraft on the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet at its home base on 18 August 1919. After the Allied intervention in th
Two CMBs, a two-torpedo version (foreground) and single-torpedo version (rear)
An aircraft returning to Vindictive, ditched in the sea
Plans of a 55ft CMB
Wreckage of the Pamiat Azova
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.
Raid on Kronstadt
…The raid followed a similar one carried out by a single motor torpedo boat outside the harbour on 17 June 1919, in which Lieutenant Augustus Agar's CMB-4 sank the Bolshevik cruiser Oleg. The raid on 18 August 1919 was carried out by a newly arrived force of seven larger CMBs under Commander Claude Congreve…
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.