OK let's give this a shot,without wanting to give too much away (thus robbing my mate Philip of book sales) here are their names but no types or histories:

Boat 1 is Nokomis,Boat 2 is Marne,Boat 3 is Enstone,boat 4 is Yerba Buena,Boat 5 is Enstone again,Boat 6 is Lanroc,Boat 7 is Raglan,Boat 8 is Moidore,Boat 9 is Thanet,Boat 10 is Laguna,Boat 11 is Fische,Boat 12 is Valeur,Boat 13 is The Clive,Boat 14 is Venture,Boat 15 is Heron,Boat 16 is Calypso,Boat 17 is very nice and Boat 18 is Calshot Salar.

According to the sequence,Boat 17 should be Happy Medium but it ain't,that is not a Thornycroft but from the poor picture plus the superstructure hiding the sheerline I cannot ID her-any help?Perhaps she is the boat brought in to replace Jalna? 

Update 25/07/06:It IS Happy Medium.Some conversion!

Hi ALL,

While looking at Apolloduck a couple of months ago I came across the following class of MTB.

www.appolloduck.co.uk

The finish Navy had a class of post war MTB's known as the NUOLI CLASS built between 1959-1964,14 boats were built of which 3-4 remain in private ownership and one is in a museum.These boats had two MTU50 light weight diesels and seem very much in the mold of our wartime boats - I do wonder if they are related to the Russian P6 boats?

Anyway the boat has been sold (£20,000), but the interesting part is that it has been sold to owners in the UK. Does anybody know anything about this and will we see a restored and running MTB or a houseboat?

I believe that Nuoli means Arrow, feel free to correct me.

Links

One in finland

http://www.hugohein.com/other/torpedo.boat/specs.torpedo.htm

And one for sale in the USA $175,000

http://www.b-americanboats.com/torpedoboat.html

Finnish boat recently sold on Apolloduck and coming to the UK?

Privatly owned Finnish boat - 2 may be available for sale in the near future.

USA Boat for sale

Any comments?

Hello,

Re Finnish patrol boat, been on sale for a while, most likely to be a houseboat, twin military diesels would be quite thirsty, though they could be replaced, but as I said she will most likely be a houseboat. The "active" one I have seen also for sale before, complete with guns, but for a lot more than 20,000!, looked at it myself, but then costs of getting her home and berthing brought me back to reality.

John