“WARSHIP WEDNESDAY, JAN., 15, 2020@11:37: LET US NOT FORGET OUR ALLIED M.T.B.’s-MOTOR TORPEDO BOATS, P.T., FAIRMILES, ETC., THAT WERE ALL PART OF OUR ALLIED COASTAL FORCES OF W.W.II/1939-1945!!!”
“NOTE: WHAT A GREAT BUNCH OF MEN/HEROES AND THE EXTENSIVE ACTION THEY DID SEE!!!”
battleoftheatlantic19391945/WordPress.com Brian MURZA/Killick Vison/W.W.II NAVAL RESEARCHER-PUBLISHED AUTHOR, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. killickvison@yahoo.ca
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II – Volume I, written by John Lambert and Al Ross deals with Fairmile Designs and the US Submarine Chasers. It was published on 12 December 2018 by Seaforth Publishing, an imprint of Pen and Sword Books, is 256 pages long and has ISBN: 9781526744494*(see below).
I do love naval history and I have a particular interest in small boats (and big ships and all in between truth be told). This volume deals with some of my favourite vessels, the Fairmiles.
Fairmile Marine was a British boat building company founded in 1939 by the car manufacturer Noel Macklin using his garage at Cobham Fairmile in Surrey for manufacturing assembly. His company was run as an agency of the Admiralty, the company carrying out business without turning a profit, the staff being in effect part of the civil service.
Fairmile B – Admiralty Light Modification…
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