It consisted of small coastal defence craft such as motor launches, submarine chasers, air-sea rescue launches, motor gun boats and motor torpedo boats.
A detached Motor Torpedo Boat reached safety, but otherwise all hands were lost.
The SSRF used HM MTB 344, a Motor Torpedo Boat colloquially nicknamed The Little Pisser from its outstanding turn of speed.
Once back in Bari, in late December, he boarded an Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) that took him to the isle of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
During the Second World War it was also mounted on power-operated turrets in smaller watercraft such as Motor Gun Boats and Motor Torpedo Boats.
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She was used in the Adriatic briefly until December 1943, when she ran aground on the island of Silba, and was subsequently destroyed by British Motor Torpedo Boats.
On 30 July 1943, the captured seven-man crew of the Royal Norwegian Navy motor torpedo boat MTB 345 were executed by the Germans in Bergen, Norway on the basis of the Commando Order.