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 So is that possibly what this boat is (sorry it's not on the broads but looks similar?)

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Christian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 February 2007 at 5:34pm

Oh yes indeedy;

They were taken over by the War Dept and used as Target Towing Launches (hence the spotting tower) after the Navy had utilised them as MASB/MGBs.

Do you know more (name, date and location) about her?

Do you have the full-size image?

Rgds, Christian.

  

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote rozm2 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 February 2007 at 6:58pm
Not sure of the exact dates but she was my Grandad's boat, probaby circa 1960, he had her down in Fowey (Cornwall), at the time she was called Ginchy (I believe) and she had 2 hudson invader engines in, which all worked well but one had 'preserving oil' in which resulted in a big end going just out of fowey so they turned back and he took all the bits off it and left instructions for it to be disposed of, though he did see it being used as accomodation a few years later, I've got a copy of the original photograph, I can e-mail you a scan if you like?

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Hi

The confusion over the identity of Morning Flight on the Norfolk Broads forum has now been resolved and all parties are in agreement that she was indeed MGB 56 .... I'm hoping to have a picture of her sent to me later. My thanks to Clive for his help !

I am still working on the assumption that the first picture I posted was MTB 653. Christian, your picture of the second MTB at Norwich that you think may be MTB 740 looks to have been taken at around the same time, and in the same location as my picture. I wonder if she possibly just came in for decommissioning and did not remain on the Broads ??

I have managed to scan the photo-copied page of the 1956 Hoseasons brochure which showed pictures of two of the boats which were at Oulton Broad at that time. The quality is not great but the first picture is of "Blue Lagoon" (listed as being a 60ft ex-MGB) and the second is "Foynes" (listed as being a 72ft ex-MTB) ...... the lengths listed in the brochure may not be entirely reliable!!

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masbie something in the water.   www.freewebs.com/masb32/
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I cant seem to post theese pictures with any kind of quality If anyone wants to have a go i'll email them (if I can)!
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Hi

Morning Flight - MGB 56

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Hi Carol

I am grilling my friend Phil Simons for more information for you, in the meantime Blue Lagoon was certainly a British Power Boat Co "Whaleback", and entirely possible she was an MGB (otherwise she could have also have been a Motor Anti/Submarine Boat or RAF High Speed Launch, the hulls were all identical) . She had had a remarkably similar conversion to the boat photographed at Woodbridge in 1980 and 1988 by Mark in the "Where Are Those Boats Now" topic. These boats came in two lengths, 63 or 70ft (e.g. MGB56), so it's likely she was 63ft although I've heard (from Ron Young) that a popular modification was to shorten them a little to cut out rot at the transom (as per HSL 2548 apparently) so she may have been 60ft at the time of the photo. Foynes was a "2-tube" Vosper MTB (the later 4-tube boats had flush decks) their hulls measured 70ft but had transom-hung rudders which would indeed have brought them up to an LOA of 72ft. There's not many of either type left I'm afraid.

It is entirely possible you are correct about MTB 740, hopefully Phil will let us know more.

Rgds, Christian. 

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The more I see of these whalebacks the more I am starting to think of them as one of the most beautiful looking vessels ever built.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jimmy p Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 February 2007 at 7:57am

Have to agree there,

 For a fighting vessel theyr the marylin monroe of the boat world.

Sadly most are also long dead

A boat is a hole in the water surrounded by wood, into which one throws money
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