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Motor Gun Boat of the Fairmile C class Navy: The Royal Navy Type: Motor Gun Boat Class: Fairmile C Pennant MGB 328 Built by Lady Bee Ltd. (Shoreham, England, U.K.) Ordered: 27 August, 1940. Laid down Launched Commissioned: 13 October, 1941. Lost: 21 July, 1942. History Sunk by gunfire from German surface vessels in Dover Straits on 21 July 1942 MGB-328 HMS was a Fairmile C motor gun boat that was shelled and sunk by Kriegsmarine surface ships in the Dover Strait on the 21st July 1942. Royal Navy official photographer, Smith, J H (Lt) http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//17/media-17840/large.jpg This is photograph A 7449 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. The Royal Navy during the Second World War C class MGBs in line abreast off the coast near Dover. MGB Q328 nearest camera, MGB 330 in the background.
21 July 1942 MGB.328, ship loss WALKER, Richard L, Ty/Sub Lieutenant, RNVR, MPK Type Motor Gun Boat Displacement 72 BRT Length: 110 feet (oa) Complement: 16 men Armament 2 2pdr (2x1) 4 .5" AA machine guns (2x2) 4 .303" AA machine guns (2x2) Max speed 26 knots Engines Petrol engines, 3 shafts Power 2700 BHP Sub-Lieutenant Richard Lawson Walker BIRTH unknown DEATH 21 Jul 1942 MEMORIAL SITE* Chatham Naval Memorial Chatham, Medway Unitary Authority, Kent, England * A structure erected in honor of someone whose remains lie elsewhere. PLOT 66 1. MEMORIAL ID 14382476. Age: 23 Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, H.M.M.G.B. 324. Son of John and Valence M. Walker, of Knightwick, Worcestershire.

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