Allied Warships

HMS MTB 708 (MTB 708)

Motor Torpedo Boat of the Fairmile D class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMotor Torpedo Boat
ClassFairmile D 
PennantMTB 708 
ModMotor Torpedo Boat 
Built byS. B. Hall (Glampton, England, U.K.) 
Ordered7 Apr 1942 
Laid down 
Launched 
CommissionedNov 1943 
Lost5 May 1944 
History

Sunk with gunfire by HMS Cottesmore on 5 May 1944 in the English Channel after being bombed in error by Allied aircraft

 

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1George Clifford Fanner, RNVR22 Nov 19435 May 1944

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