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Hurry up with the pictures, I can hardly wait -

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Jim's wonderful pics of the very sound-looking Osprey.Well worth the wait.

P.S.  Jim,see http://www.riverthames.co.uk/boat/sale/toughs/private_b.htm

look at Bon Partout,another pre-war CMB-type private yacht,slightly smaller than Diana. 



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Sorry Pioneer

The Pics were too big

Sent them by E Mail to Christian to reduce in size,

Only got Osprey so far....hunting the rest down...

 

Chistian

Nice one,your a star great to see the pic's Ok to put on the Forum

will get the pics of this west coast "Mystery German" next week should be up that way on Thursday.

 



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Certainly well worth the wait - superb!

Any news on the 'MTB' type up there - I understand it may be an ex 'Dark' - fingers are crossed.
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RTTL 2757 looking very much better now,all volunteer work too,and accompanied by 63' General Service Pinnace 1374,at RAF Museum,Hendon.

You can certainly see where the hull form for the RTTL came from,Vosper experimental MTB 538 prior to redesignation as FPB1602.



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Heading to Girvin tomorrow after work,with camera.....

hope its there!

Will hunt as many down as i can before Aug, going abroad for a while.

The Hulk up on the Oban Rd sounds promising got three sound sightings.The only worry is it is said if you go near it a nutter with a shot gun threatens you!!(He stays in another hulk next to it)

sound like FUN!!!!

 



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This picture has emerged of LRRC 030 - found in a Junk Shop.

As you will see it has the scallops in the Bow (not visible on the Chatham "D" images on page 1 of this Topic).



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Hi Pioneer,

 

Great photograph, as you say, the D at Chatham had lost its torpedoe scallops, but what a great find. We found the commissioning photograph of the Medway Queen in a sale by pure chance, a great find as you can imagine.

 

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Hi Pioneer

All the LRRC conversions were based on 1943 and later boats, i.e. all had scallops. MTB 683 presumably had hers covered over when she was sheathed in plywood, a tricky one to spot as her line of portholes was then continued where the scallops were!

Rgds, Christian.  

 
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We have to thank the people who bought old Fairmile D's for use as houseboat's otherwise they would have been extinct years ago, their life was only supposed to be around five years and the build cost factor was calculated around that fact so some of the materials used were not normally used in boatbuilding which sometimes lead to problem's with the hull integrity, unlike British Power Boat's who stuck to the "old fashioned" but expensive method's of building boat's that is why there are more wartime B.Power hulls about today.
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