Control Target Boats
Between 1942 & 1945 there were 50 C/T Boats all of which were converted from
other military fast boats, Naval MTBs, MGBs and RAF HSLs. These were numbered C/T 1 - 49 (there were 2 CT 26's), in fact our own HSL 102 was converted to C/T 12 in 1943.
On top of this Thornycroft built a number of boats between 1938 - 1944 numbered DCMB 01, DCTB 1 - 6 and Queen Swan 5 - 10 (DCTB 1,3,5 & 6 became Queen Swan 1 - 4.
The War Department Army also had 131 12ft Queen Gull remote control target boats built by the British Power Boats Company at Marchwood Park. We have Queen Gull 78 in our collection at Marchwood
This is an earlier build than Venture in the blog below,she is still carrying her original superstructure which Charles Bates removed on Venture,the stem has less rake too.
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