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ASR1255
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I went to Newsons open day on saturday, i was made very welcome and shown around ZETA,HUMBER and SPITFIRE ,all very interesting stuff.
Before i left i had a look at a fantastic manual on the repair and servicing of the RAF 63ft PINNACE, it was produced by the air ministry,which has led me to ask is there such a manual for the earlier 60ft PINNACES of WW2 vintage and where would you start to try and find one? Any ideas any one? Many thanks steve |
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Tim Deacon
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....Continuing a thread left by 'Marksaab' on 7 May 2007....only just seen it!
Reference the book 'Midnight Trader'; a good read; I've just read it again. I'd be very interested to know if anyone has information about the time when 'Taifun' was on the River Hamble, after she appeared in the film 'The Ship That Died of Shame'; must have been around 1955/6. She was up for sale, and moored somewhere on the River Hamble, advertised by a Yacht Broker.....I've looked in old magazines of the time in the 'For Sale' adverts, but so far haven't found reference to 'an ex-J. Samuel White MTB...etc, etc'. There must be a copy of a mag somewhere with a 'For Sale' advert for the boat? I've searched high and low for any photos of the boat on the river at that time, with no luck.
I've found the articles in the 'People' Newspaper of the time, written by Hugh Edwards (before he published 'Midnight Trader') and they differ from the book in that he actually names the crew of the boat, including the crewman that drowned, when smuggling and the ship sinks.
Also, reference was made to the 'Motor Boat and Yachting Manual 1948' with an illustration of a White MTB (on pages 158/159, figs. 95/96) similar to 'Taifun'.
In fact the illustrations are of an earlier White design and not MTBs 424-429 (Polish S-5 to S-10). The Polish boats had a wheelhouse which was very flat f'rd and wider than the one illustrated. (Similar to the later Vosper design MTBs), and also had a 6pdr. QF gun on the foredeck and an oerlikon on the after deck, not a M/G in a 'dustbin'.
I've always understood that the six Polish boats were a 'White' design. Unfortunately there are few (if any) drawings of these particular boats. It also says in the text that 'they were level riding boats and did good work in the Channel BEFORE and after D-Day operations'....that can't be so as, according to the 'Admiralty Ship Cards', they were all launched around August 1944, so missed D-Day by a couple of months.
Being picky I know, but thougth I'd put the story right....the 'Devil being in the detail.....'.
Tim
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