NAVAL SPEEDBOATS
RESCUE WORK AT TOBRUK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 27. A number of motor torpedo-boats belonging to the Mediterranean Fleet which were in Tobruk when it surrendered have now reached Alexandria. One saved 100 men from a sinking schooner and also picked up a man who had swum a mile. These mosquito boats, which have served with the American Navy, are the first American craft of the kind to join the Royal Navy. They are faster than the enemy E-boats. and are probably the fastest units of the British Navy, reaching a speed of 47 knots.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1942, Page 3
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