NAVY HISTORY - Ships - Motor Torpedo Boats
One of the vessels that was developed during the war for operations in what can be called the Battle of the Narrow Seas which was the English Channel, the area between South England to the Bay of Biscay and the North Sea was the Motor Torpedo Boat. This fast small racehorse was intended to attack German convoys transiting up and down the occupied coast and to protect allied shipping. Most operations were conducted in during the night in order to avoid daytime attack by the Luftwaffe and use the dark to hide from more powerful Kriegsmarine ships.
Crew of MTB 459, May 1944. (PA 108024)
Shown on the bridge, left to right: Lieut John Shand, RCNVR, of Montserrat, B. W. I.; S/Lieut Jack Foote, RCNVR, of Fergus, Ontario; Lieut Cdr. Anthony “Tony” Law, RCNVR, of Quebec City, Commanding Officer, L/S Cyril French, RCNVR, of Saskatoon, Sask.
Second row: Tel. T. 0. Donald McCallum, RCNVR, of Nelville, Sask.; Tel. T.O. Patrick McAuley, RCNVR, of Verdun Que.; A/B James Beyea, RCNVR, of St. John, N. B.; Sig. Robert Lovelock, RCNVR, of Montreal; A/B William Dublock, RCNVR, of St. Catherines, Ont.
Front row: A/B Harold Seaton, RCNVR, of Chatham, Ont.; A/B William Bushfield, RCNVR, of Stratford, Ont.; A/B Roland Stevens, RCN, of Windsor, Ont.; Sto. M. Jack McMahon, RCNVR, of Melfort, Sask.; L/S William Reid, RCNVR, of Calgary, Alta.; A/B Herbert Simpson, RCNVR of Wallaceburg, Ont.; Sto. M. James Roberts, RCNVR, of London, Ont.; P. 0. M. M. Edward Dawson, RCNVR, of Calgary, Alta.
special thanks - https://naval-museum.mb.ca/ for crew/photo info
Crew
- Captain – Lieutenant or sub-lieutenant
- First Lieutenant -Lieutenant or sub-lieutenant
- Coxswain – Petty officer or leading seaman Petty officer motor mechanic
- Leading stoker
- Able seaman – seaman torpedo man
- Able seaman – seaman gunner
- Telegraphist
- Stoker
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Ship Information 
MTB 459
Builder: British Power Boat
Construction Started: 1943
Launched: 1944
Commissioned :1944
Pennant Number: MTB 459
Atlantic English Channel
Decommissioned :1945
Paid Off: Enter
Other ShipsMTB 459
SCOTT – PAINE TYPE G-TYPE
Built by - British Power Boats at Hythe.
Displacement: (New & Dry) – 47 tons
Displacement: 52 tons full load
Length: 71.5 ft (21.33 m)
Beam: ft in 20'7"
Draught: 5'9"
Propulsion: 3 Rolls Royce or Packard V-12 Supercharged 1250 H.P. engines, each with a 2,500 gallon capacity of 100% octane gas
Speed: 38 to 41 knots (43.7 /47.1 mph) at full load
Range: 140 miles while cruising at 25 knots
Compliment: 15 - 21
Armarments:
2 × single 6 pounder guns
two 10 inch Torpedo tubes
2 × twin .303 Vickers K guns
4 × light boat depth charges
Searchlight
TSA smoke generator
Other MTB
- Naval Museum of Manitoba
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- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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- Macpherson, Ken; Barrie, Ron (2002). The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–2002 (Third ed.). St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing. ISBN 1-55125-072-1.
- http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist4.php?&name=Agassiz%20%28H.M.C.S.%29&id=965
- Schull Joesph, Far Distant Ships, An official Account of Canadian Naval Operations in World War II, Stoddart Publishing: Toronto. 1989
Cite Article : Reference: www.navyhistory/sections/Ships/Minesweepers/HMCS_Courtenay.html
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