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3 unusual facts about HM Coastal Motor Boat 4


HM Coastal Motor Boat 4

After the action the boat was returned to the United Kingdom where it was on display first at the Imperial War Museum in London and then at the Vosper works on Platt’s Eyot (island) on the River Thames near Kingston for many years with a Victoria Cross painted on the side until the Vosper works there closed.

In December 1916 he proceeded to Dunkirk in charge of the 3rd CMB Division and operated on the Belgian coast.

Beckett was in command of a Divisional CMB attack on German destroyers at Zeebrugge on 7 April 1917; as a result one was sunk and one very seriously damaged.


Coastal Motor Boat

:In December 1916, the 3rd CMB Division proceeded to Dunkirk under the command of Lieutenant W.N.T. Beckett of CMB4 and operated on the Belgian coast.


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