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Category: General Discussion
Forum Name: Coastal Forces
Forum Description: Discussion about Coastal Forces
URL: http://www.bmpt.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=569
Printed Date: 26 March 2026 at 11:42pm


Topic: introduction
Posted By: ukstew37
Subject: introduction
Date Posted: 27 September 2008 at 8:49pm
hi all new here so just thought id say "hello" just spent a fortnight planking a ex coastal command boat , i thing the oringinal name was bream after the river as they were all named after rivers , the hull was double diaganal mahoganay on oak frame .


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Posted By: Pioneer
Date Posted: 27 September 2008 at 10:31pm
Hello 'ukstew37' - welcome aboard.
There is a fairly comprehensive article on the 'River' class - click the round Logo (at top left of this page) then select 'Humber' from the drop down menu at 'Select a boat here'
Nice to hear that there is some hard work going on out there.
Regards


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Posted By: johnk
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 9:32am
Hi there,
 
Indeed, as you say, very heartening to see such effort for a coastal forces craft! best of luck with it.
 
JohnK

Posted By: ukstew37
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 4:13pm
thanks for the welcome guys , in all i replaced 47 external planks and 19 internal all new rubbing bands above and below , i used teak for the hull and oak for the rubbing bands , new oak buffers on corners of transom and new transom , fully scraped and repainted , anti fouled and re stickered , she looks very nice indeed

Posted By: johnk
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 5:30pm
Hi ukstew37,
Wow! what a lot of work! would be great to see her in the flesh so to speak, appreciate not easy, don't know how to do it myself, but possible to post pictures here. Great to hear of a river class being saved, only a few about, group from Southampton, Coastal Forces Heritage Trust, have the Garth, but gone very quiet on that front recently sorry to say.
 
JohnK

Posted By: johnk
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 5:34pm
correction to above should be Coastal Motorboat Heritage Trust, CFHT is something different, more about history and archive, though did try and have MGB 60 restored, but was lost in a fire at the yard, origionally due to be static at Duxford, but replaced by MTB 71.
 
Johnk

Posted By: ukstew37
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 5:41pm
hi johnk give me a few days and i will put some pics up for u all to see cheers

Posted By: Magic Fingers
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 8:51pm

If you have a Rivers class fast launch then the name is probably "Beam" and not Bream. The river Beam is in Essex and flows into the Thames in the Dagenham area.



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