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Topic: Lend Lease Herreshoff Boats |
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GregBanner
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Posted on: Nov 29, 2020 - 1:56pm
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I am researching boats built in particular by Herreshoff in Bristol, Rhode Island. I will post a separate note about the crash boats, but for PT boats they all went to the UK and Russia. Some were returned to the US. I can find little on war time service or the fate for most of them and looking for any added info. Details below. Happy to share what I have learned but hoping for more. Thanks.
(8) 70’ Vosper Class PT boats (all to Britain/India) (BPT #29-36 which were called by the British MTB # 287-294)
Delivered March – July 1943
(20) 70’ Vosper Class PT boats (all the USSR) (P #430-449)
Delivered Feb – June 1944
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Arjan Wiskerke
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Posted on: Nov 30, 2020 - 7:53am
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Hi Greg. This should explain why there is so little info on the exploits of the lend lease Vosper MTB's that went to India (I had a similar question about the Annapolis ones that went there):
http://cfv.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=611
Regards,
Arjan
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Sailinbruce
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Posted on: Dec 3, 2020 - 9:06am
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The Revell Vosper 1/72 Scale MTB is a pretty close approximation to the Herreshoff boats sent to Russia
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IgorNSK
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Posted on: Jan 21, 2021 - 7:27pm
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Hi, what do you want to know about Herreshoff Vospers? Their fate in SU Fleet?
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IgorNSK
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Posted on: Jan 21, 2021 - 7:30pm
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Revell kit is rather bad approximation of SU design Vosper. Cockpit, hull shape and transom got huge mistakes. Hull bottom completely wrong.
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