The Dutch motor torpedo boat TM 51 bought in England according to the Dutch newspaper Netherlands De Sumatra Post dated 4 January 1939

An item reported that of the twenty ordered motor torpedo boats eight were to serve in the Dutch East Indies. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 31 December 1938 reported earlier that these twenty boats were designed by Scott-Paine. The first one was to be built by the British firm the British Power Boat Company, the other 19 by the Dutch shipyard Gusto at Schiedam.(1)

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1. This was the British designer of aircraft and boats Hubert Scott-Paine (11 March 1891-14 April 1954). In his spare time he was also a famous power boat racer. Together with George Selman he was responsible for a motor torpedo boat launched in 1938 with a length of 70 foot in which the British admiralty not was interested in contrary to other countries. The at Hythe, England build boat was the Hr.Ms. TM 51 which was completed at the shipyard Gusto. She was damaged during the German invasion in the Netherlands in May 1940, escaped to England where she arrived the 15^th and finally handed over to the Royal British navy where she after her conversion into a motor anti-submarine boat was commissioned as the MA/SB 46. In 1941-1942 she again served in Dutch service as the MGB 46.