| Navy | The Free French Navy |
| Type | Motor Torpedo Boat |
| Class | Vosper 72 feet-type |
| Pennant | MTB 98 |
| Built by | Vosper (Portchester, England, U.K.) |
| Ordered | 20 May 1940 |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | |
| Commissioned | 24 Oct 1942 |
| End service | 1946 |
| History | Returned to the Royal Navy in 1946 |
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Notable events involving MTB 98 include:
16 Mar 1944
Around 1800A/16, ' Force 27 ' made up of the destroyers HMCS Haida (Cdr. H.G. De Wolf, RCN), HMCS Athabaskan (Lt.Cdr. J.H. Stubbs, RCN) and HMS Ashanti (Lt.Cdr. J.R. Barnes, RN) departed Plymouth to patrol between positions (CC) 150° - Bishop Rock - 8 nautical miles and (DD) 125° - Position CC - 20 nautical miles.
At 2200A/16, aircraft 512Sq./C, a Halifax, which was on patrol between the Scillies and Brest reported the position of a possible enemy motor torpedo boat as 49°06'N, 06°02'W.
' Force 113 ', made up of the (French) motor torpedo boats MTB 96 (?), MTB 98 (?) and MTB 91 (?) were ordered to proceed to position 130° - the Lizard - 10 nautical miles. ' Force 113 ', which had been patrolling off Eddystone was at that moment already en-route towards the Lizard.
At 2240A/16, ' Force 27 ' was in contact with the aircraft that had made the report.
At 0130A/17, a group of two possible enemy motor torpedo boats were plotted in position 095° - the Lizard - 8 nautical miles and at 0214A/17 ' Force 113 ' was sent to investigate. Subsequently two more groups of enemy motor torpedo boats were plotted intermittently south-east of Dodman point and the Falmouth shore batteries opened fire on the southernmost group which then moved eastwards.
At 0240A/17, all groups moved to the south-east at high speed.
' Force 27 ' proceeded at high speed on an easterly course to attempt to intercept the enemy should they double back to Brest. ' Force 113 ' endeavoured to intercept the northernmost group but both forces were too far to the west to make contact.
Minelaying was suspected off Dodman Point and at first light minesweeping trawlers searched the convoy routes between Plymouth and Falmouth.
' Force 113 ' returned to Dartmouth around 0755A/17. MTB 91, which had engine defects, had already returned around 0335A/17.
' Force 27 ' arrived at Plymouth around 0800A/17.
The enemy motor torpedo boats must have been part of the 5th and 9th S-boat flotillas which had been operating in the area during this night. This were S 84, S 112, S 139, S 140, S 141, S 143, S 144, S 145, S 146 and S 150. They had departed Brest around 2000B/16 and arrived at Cherbourg around 0630A/17 - 0700A/17. (1)
Sources
- ADM 199/1393 + KTB Fuhrer der Schnellboote 16 to 31 March 1944 (NARA, T 1022, roll 3146, PG 71029)
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.