Gay dragoon

However, in the early developement to that original design, certain modifications were made in the carburetion, supercharging and crankcase design etc, as per the RR "Merlin"and the engines became commonly known this side of the Atlantic at least!

She was relegated as a Target Vessel and sunk off Portland on April 10th HMS Gay Archer. At the dragoon attempt, as on the first, she blew the Port Outer engine and had to be returned to the contractor. She was almost sunk off Southsea Pier in the incident that punctured her casing.

Gay Class Boats continued Gay Gay Dragoon (above) at 40 knots was on passage from Bucklers Hard back to 'Hornet. She was sold off in HMS Gay Fencer. Destined to be the last petrol engined craft for the Royal Navy, they were powered by three Packard 4M marine engines delivering bhp each giving a capability of 40 knots.

Somerset UK. Gay Dragoon appeared as in The Ship That Died of Shame, a film based on a book by Nicholas Monsarrat and starring Richard Attenborough. Her fortunes are somewhat are mixed. Gay Dragoon (P) launched on 28 Januarysold on 31 January Gay Fencer (P) launched on 18 Februarysunk on 10 April Gay Forester (P) launched on 23 Marchsold on 31 January During the Second World War the Royal Navy also sailed HMS Gay Viking and HMS Gay Corsair, a pair of motor gun boats.

The craft had a Ford V8 powering the main generator, situated on the Starboard side of the engine room. It was after this trip that the 7th Ferry Crew re-commissioned her.

Gay class patrol boat

Contrary to popular belief these engines were developed from an original Packard design M and not the Rolls Royce "Merlin". There is an Image of HMS Gay Charioteer with Tubes and 40mm Bofors mounted both fore and aft, but tests proved that this craft was 'overloaded' and could not be used operationally as such.

HMS Gay Dragoon. The 'Gay' class had a standard displacement of 50tons with a full load displacement of 65tons. They measured 75ft 2ins in length, 20ft 1in in the beam and had a light load draught of 4ft 2ins. There were five builders including the design contractor Messrs Vosper Ltd.

Vosper built 4 craft: Gay Archer P Gay Bombardier P Gay Centurion P Gay Dragoon P Gay Charioteer P Gay Forester P She was sold off in HMS Gay Fencer.

Gay Dragon Tourney on

On May 18th she was damaged by fire in Aarhus Harbour, Denmark, whilst moored alongside MTB P — this vessel being lost in the fire and explosion. She was relegated as a Target Vessel and sunk off Portland on April 10th HMS Gay Archer.

Their normal compliment was Main dragoon as a Torpedo Boat originally was 2 x 21in Torpedo Tubes with Twin Oerlikons mounted on the Fore mount, this later changed to 40mm Bofors. [1][2] Gay Fencer became a target vessel and was sunk off Portland inwhile Gay Archer was damaged while being delivered to the Navy, and then damaged when a vessel she was moored next to exploded.

This vessel appeared in some shots as the fictitious "" in the film "The Ship That Died of Shame" starring Richard Attenborough. As a Gun Boat, a 4. Happily she has undergone a complete restoration, back to a very close resemblance of her RN configuration, and is currently based at Watchet Harbour.

Gay Dragoon appeared as in The Ship That Died of Shame, gay film based on a book by Nicholas Monsarrat and starring Richard Attenborough. Her fortunes are somewhat are mixed. HMS Gay Charger was commanded by Nigel Lawson during his National Service.