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Thursday, 1 November 2018

Dutch motor torpedo boat Valk MTB 204) 1942-1946

In British territorial waters in July 1944
National Archive, The Hague, Netherlands. Photocollection Anefo. Original url

Built by Vosper, Portsmouth, England in 1942, commissioned in England on 27 March 1942, laid up at Portland on 14 September 1944 and stricken in February 1946 and sold. With a displacement of 32 tons was with a horsepower of 4.050 ahp her speed 35 miles. The crew numbered 13 men and the armament consisted of 1-2cm machinegun, 2-12,7mm/0.50” machineguns, 4-7,7mm machineguns and 2-53,3cm torpedo tubes.