THE MOTOR BOAT PATROL.
<JOW IT CAME INTO BEING The Yachting Monthly, a prominent English journal, gives the credit for the formation of the Motor Boat Patrol, to the late Lt. Oscar Freyberg, of Wellington, and brother of Brig.-Gen. Bernard Freyberg, V.C., D.S.O. The American Press, says the Yachting Monthly, claims for the United States the initiation of the Motor Boat Patrol, but I feel it is only right that credit should be awarded where it is duo, When the war was young. Oscar Freyberg, of Wellington, New Zealand,, called on me, whilst undergoing a period of training in the Naval Division in which he held a commission. The problem of the submarine was arousing some concern at the time; and Freyberg told me that in New Zenland the whalers employed a fast motorboat, which carried a harpoon-gun forward. .Speed 'and one reliable weapon accounted for the whale; why not a submarine? With that idea, hV developed his system, which was to build a large number nf motor launches carrying one good gun, and having a speed of 25 to 30 knots. He put the matter before the Admiralty, the idea met with approval, and be was invited to put his boat on the satisfaction of knowing that his idea was accepted. It will thus 'be seen that to Oscar Freyberg, of AVellington, New Zealand, and somo time lieutenant in the naval division, belongs the credit of the Motor Boat Patrol as far as its inception is concerned, and I think it is due to his memory that he should receive eeive full credit for it.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1917, Page 7
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266THE MOTOR BOAT PATROL. Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1917, Page 7
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