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THE COASTAL FORCES HERITAGE TRUST |
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John Arkell DSC (Sub Lt RNVR) (60 mins) Trg at King Alfred and Fort William - MGB607 - CF base at Yarmouth - North Sea Ops - Navigational problems - E Boat action 24/5 Oct '43 - experience of plastic surgery. (£12.00) Eric Ashton PO (Eng Mech/Eng Lt) (79 mins) POMEM in MTB 71 (RNN7) - Isotta Engines - Dover: Air/Sea rescue and Channel ops - MTB 71 damaged at sea & in dock - Casualties - Repairs - Portsmouth Air Raids - MTB 201 ER fire - hospitalisation - Commissioned, Pembroke Dock - Overseeing Vosper MTBs building in Annapolis - Algiers: prop shaft mods - Malta Dockyard: Main engine mods - Base EO Shetlands - Fuel centrifuge invented. (£13.00) Sir Walter Blount Bt, DSC** (Lt RNSVR) (142 mins) King Alfred, Scapa Flow, Fort William - Scott Paine and Du Cane - CO MASB 24: Air Sea rescue - CO ML 577 - MTB 662 (Tim Bligh) as spare CO - Operations with US MTBs - CO MTB 634 in the Mediterranean - Action against Schooners and I-boats off Cephalonia - Famous action against F-lighters and E Boats - Arsa Channel - Enemy surrender at Tagliamento - Hull/Machinery design - Tim Bligh and Tom Fuller - MTB tactics - Decorations and morale (£15.00) Freddie Bourne DSC (Lt RNVR) (68 mins) ML101 - Minelaying off French Coast - CO MTB 344 - Detail of Operations with the Small Scale raiding Force - Reconnaissance with Army - Channel Islands and the French Coast CO MTB 348 (MTBF11) - Ian Trelawny, Peter Magnus - Operations off the Dutch Coast - The 'Four Horsemen' - Loss of MTBs 347 and 360 - Personalities in MTBF11 - CO MGBs 2003 and 2009 - Clandestine Ops on Scandinavian Cost - The Base at Aberdeen - The grounding of MGB 2007 - the overall Effectiveness of - CF Operations (£13.00) Len Bridge (Ldg Stoker) (105 mins) Training - Malvern, HMS ATTACK - MTB 448 (Power Boat) Operating as a gunboat - Ops off Dutch Coast - Maintenance of MTBs 65 and 67 - April 44, MTB 204 (CO: Sub-Lt John Simon Moss) - Aberdeen, Dover, HMS HORNET, Littlehampton for Op, Febious - detailed account of 6 weeks at D Day Landings Troop carrier Derrycunihy mined - Aug '44, Refit in Twickenham - ML 204 at Burma via Suez - Op. 'Dracula' Rangoon Landings - Kenneth Craddock- Hartopp - VE and VJ days. MLs paid off - HMS JAMAICA - Java task force. (£14.00) Vic Clake DSM (Cox'n) (45 mins) Cox'n MTBs/MGBs, duties and training - MAC2 and MGB18 - MTB 637 Building, voyage to the Med - Tanker escort - Tunisia, Bizerte, Malta, Yugoslav partisans - Lt Gould's last action (MTB 639) - Ratings pay and conditions (£12.00) Lt Cdr Charles Coles OBE VRD RNR (130 mins) Early days in the Med., Malta, CO MTB s 17 & 01, MTBF 1, severe storms- passage across France through canals and rivers - Home waters, the phoney war, Felixstowe, Op Lucid, Dover and the Channel, Norwegian liaison, casualties - the Med., invasion of Crete, beachmaster at Alexandria, Tobruk, Alamein, loss of MTB 262 - experiences as POW. (£15.00) |