Allied Warships

HMS MGB 506 (MGB 506)

Motor Gun Boat of the Camper&Nicholson-type class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMotor Gun Boat
ClassCamper&Nicholson-type 
PennantMGB 506 
Built byCamper & Nicholsons Ltd. (Gosport, England, U.K.) 
Ordered24 Apr 1942 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned 
End service 
History

Completed as Mercantile for running the blockade to Sweden, named Gay Viking
Collided with mercantile Hopewell (ex MGB 504) in the Skagerrak on 6 February 1944 and abandoned

 

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