Allied Warships

HMS MTB 789 (MTB 789)

Motor Torpedo Boat of the Fairmile D class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMotor Torpedo Boat
ClassFairmile D 
PennantMTB 789 
ModMotor Torpedo Boat 
Built byRisdon Beazley Ltd. (Northam, England, U.K.) 
Ordered26 Mar 1943 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned17 Oct 1944 
Lost14 Feb 1945 
History

Destroyed by an explosion and subsequent fire at Oostende, Belgium on 14 February 1945

 

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1A A Friswell, RNVR2 Oct 194414 Feb 1945

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