MTB 102 is one of few surviving UK WW2 motor torpedo boats off the Tower of London during the 2012 Queens Jubilee
MTB 102 is one of few surviving WW2 UK motor torpedo boats that served with the Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy in the Second World War during the 2012 Queens jubilee off the Tower of London. She was built as the Vosper Private Venture Boat as a prototype, but was purchased and taken into service by the Admiralty. She was the smallest vessel to ever serve as a flagship for the Royal by Commander Peter Du Cane CBE, the Managing Director of Vosper Ltd, in 1936. She was completed and launched in 1937, she was bought by the Admiralty and taken into service with the Royal Navy as MTB 102, the 100 prefix denoting a prototype vessel. She had an all-wood hull, described as "double diagonal Honduras mahogany on Canadian rock elm". Besides the torpedoes she was built with, depth charges, machine guns and the Swiss Oerlikon 20 mm anti-aircraft cannon were all tested on her. MTB 102 was the fastest wartime British naval vessel in service at 48 knots.
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Location: Tower of London, River Thames, london
Photo credit: © Russell Bulley / Alamy / Afripics
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