Histoire
This patrol vessel, fast was built in 1942c by British Power Boat Co. in Hythe.
Propriétaires et capitaines
She was owned by the Elco Power Boat Co., New Jersey USA.
She was a Naval PT Boat in service with the RN acquired under the Lend-Lease Programme in 1941.
She was loaned by the RN to the Royal Canadian Navy as a Canadian Motor Torpedo Boat.
She was acquired as a Canadian Naval Motor Torpedo Boat renamed as H.M.C.S. S-09 for service with the Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1944.
She was armed with 4 - .5 in. machine guns and 4 - 18 inch torpedo tubes.
She worked from Halifax, Gaspe, Quebec and then at Toronto in 1944 as a Firing Range Patrol Vessel at Frenchman's Bay.
She was turned over to the British Naval Liaison Office in New York and commissioned as a United States Navy MTB in 1945.
Références
- Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON
- Freeman, David J. (2000)
- Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1993)
