Italeri 5624 1/35 Vosper MTB 74 "St. Nazaire Raid" w/Crew

World War Two
Royal Navy
MTB - Motor Torpedo Boat (72’6”)
coastal patrol and anti-submarine support
propelled by 3 engines (4,200 hp), 40 knots (70 km/h)
Type I & Type II - different combination of offensive and defensive weaponry. Usually armed with 457 mm torpedo tubes, depth charges, and 0.303” / 0.5” Vickers machine guns.
controlled by 10~13 crew.
St Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot) [28 Mar 1942] - British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France during the Second World War.
Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB 74), commanded by Sub-Lieutenant Michael Wynn, ordered to fire two torpedoes at his secondary target (old entrance into the St Nazaire basin) with success. But MTB 74 was sank by German shore batteries on the way back to the UK.