MTB102 shows off her speed.

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  • @MavAuto-Pete
    @MavAuto-Pete 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Such a great boat I remember seeing it in the early 90s as a young boy moored at Brundall boats.

  • @gfimadcat
    @gfimadcat 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    That MTB just looks like a set of engines, wrapped in a skin-tight suit of waterproofness barely large enough to strap 2 torpedo tubes to. Awesome :D

  • @mtb1024
    @mtb1024 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    102 now powered by two Cummins L10 600 diesels. Originally three 18cyl 1100hp Isotta petrol engines. 102 Chief Engineer

    • @Propellerschrauber
      @Propellerschrauber 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Greetings from Bavaria to the MTB102 Chief Engineer!

    • @sussertheoriginal
      @sussertheoriginal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There was an Isotta Fraschini engine on display at the BMPT at Marchwood. Quite a beast.!

  • @allosaurusfragilis7782
    @allosaurusfragilis7782 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Remember building an airfix model of an mtb as a kid. Wonderful.

  • @keswickcaravan
    @keswickcaravan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this is truly beyond excellent

  • @willmorgan1942
    @willmorgan1942 ปีที่แล้ว

    Careful with those!

  • @deksea
    @deksea 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    sounds like a pair of large displacement in-line sixes, very nice

    • @mtb1024
      @mtb1024 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Correct. 102 Chief Eng.

    • @roundsm18
      @roundsm18 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cummins L-10 isn’t exactly a large displacement engine by semi truck or marine standards. Its only 10 liters. Articulated tractors and City buses. Small trucks in the US often have them for a base engine if you want a single screw day cab.

  • @brnesouthwest9915
    @brnesouthwest9915 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Forgive me for saying this it would be interesting to see how a German E-boat and RAF High Speed launch performed against the MTB and the two younger boats. The Royal Navy upon receipt of the two German E-boats at the end of WWII who put them through various trials and inspections admitted they were better than the MTBs.

    • @cageordie
      @cageordie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Schnell Boats were better sea boats, faster, and longer range. They also had a safer fuel, diesel, then their petrol powered opposition. The RN answered with the Fairmile D boats, which were great boats, but only good for 30 knots and still with petrol engines. Ideally I'd have the S boat with three Napier Deltics which were tested in S212 after the war. The Deltic is more powerful, half the size, and one fifth the weight of the original Daimler Benz MB 501. Oh and they sound magnificent. The D boats and S boats were similarly armed.

  • @peejpom
    @peejpom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A great pity that Brave Borderer and Brave Swordsman are no longer around, way over 50 knots with three Proteus gas turbines.

    • @roadie3124
      @roadie3124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's been many years since I had a few too many horse's necks on Brave Borderer. RN recipe was brandy and dry ginger. Max speed was classified, but they didn't really know what it was because the transponders were ripped off the hull (they said) when they really got serious. No GPS in those days. Most economical speed was, I think, 55 knots. The crew reckoned that the top speed was "very fast". The most impressive thing for me was that they could do 45 kts in a force 8. One year in the mid 1960s Brave Borderer was escort/safety boat for the Cowes to Torquay power boat race. Brave Borderer was faster than the fastest extreme power boat.

    • @interformula
      @interformula 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@roadie3124 One of the top competitors was Tramontana ? full of E type engines . It was awesome to see Brave Borderer simply drive past them almost arrogantly. Why now does the mighty RN have trouble keeping up with a WW2 MTB, running on ferry engines.

    • @peejpom
      @peejpom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@roadie3124 we actually pulled Sonny Levi out of the sinking Cigarette, got a good round of applause at the after race Dinner and Drinks.

    • @PhilbyFavourites
      @PhilbyFavourites 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      roadie3124: I think you might have had too many horses necks back then. As a regular Solent boat user 45 knots in a Force 8 is “unlikely”.
      I know things get faster and better and bigger in retrospect. My 1970’s moped did 50mph (well 44 actually) in the days before I joined the Dockyard... I see Dasher & Smiter on a regular basis and it’s nice to get the nudge to see that they are ladies now as well.
      Now you’ve got me I’m going to go for the full google mode, here goes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave-class_patrol_boat. 52 knots max from those records. 45 knots In a Force 8, I don’t think so.......

    • @roadie3124
      @roadie3124 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PhilbyFavourites Memory gets a bit wobbly after many years. I've done a core dump back to that time to check.
      The Captain (who was a Lieutenant) and his second-in-command (also a Lieutenant, but close to resigning because he'd been passed-by for promotion) were friends from prep school (ages 6 to 13), the same small, private school that my friend and I had been to.
      We had a social visit with them on our yacht the next day. My friend's father was a LtCdr in WW2 and took part in many of the most famous actions of the war. He was sunk three times. The two guys from Brave Borderer were very interested to talk about his experience and we spent a couple of hours talking about stuff.
      I was wrong about most economical speed. It was more like 45kts, not 55kts.
      Top speed was classified and probably is still classified. Wikipedia wouldn't have the data. The Captain stated that the speed measurement devices on the hull malfunctioned before they got to max speed. Maybe he was just finding a polite way of hiding classified information. However, the fact that Brave Borderer was faster than the most extreme ocean racing power boats could suggest that she was a bit quick.
      She could maintain 45 kts in force 8. The problem was that the crew's bodies couldn't. The bow could withstand 3 tons per sq inch.

  • @sandie321
    @sandie321 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dad was on at least two MTBs, 603 and 353.during WW2

  • @pacomacaw2456
    @pacomacaw2456 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Would be good to get Airfix to produce a model of 102.

  • @clevelandcampbell1228
    @clevelandcampbell1228 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Took a ride. Yes you can ride on the pt 305 here in New Orleans. These folks at the National ww2 museum have a Higgins with three packards that run on 110 octane. Y’all just can’t imagine the sounds as the fired them up. An the ride, crazy. It costs a fortune to operate. If you want to hear some crazy old school engines book a plane to New Orleans after this virus stuff. They have a two seat p-51 you can ride in too. I’m sure this boat with original engines would have a sound that would scare Satan. God bless.

    • @davidhull1610
      @davidhull1610 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's great that some of these old machines are being preserved in working order. They are a living testament to the courage of the men who crewed them in combat.

  • @stephentalbot4032
    @stephentalbot4032 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Just wondered how many knocks is 102 capable of thank you

    • @brian.7966
      @brian.7966 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      knots....

    • @mtb1024
      @mtb1024 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      These days 102 has a third of the original power and does half the speed. 27kts on a good day.

  • @seiner0ne
    @seiner0ne 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    My grandfather was on mtb 07 in hong kong

  • @markwalton6370
    @markwalton6370 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Remember them in Gibraltar well done lads

  • @iceman7975
    @iceman7975 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The wooden veteran leaves the plastic shite behind. Hms Trumpeter and Hms Ranger where stationed at Gibraltar, best speed 21kts 😭

  • @markwalton6370
    @markwalton6370 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Keeping the Spaniard in line Gibraltar in our water's 👍👍👍

  • @makegaminggreatagain3907
    @makegaminggreatagain3907 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Modern day military equipment may be better on paper and may actually be better, but they don't have anywhere near the style or character the old stuff does.

  • @stevek3036
    @stevek3036 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    By the sound and sight of the diesel smoke MTB 102 is no longer using the original early war petrol Isotta Fraschini Italian V18 central engine and twin Packard outboard V8's ? I know its unrealistic to expect that those engines could survive but if the craft was fitted with them then there would be no contest - it would easily out accelerate and perform the modern craft. Great video but please don't set unrealistic expectations

  • @anonymusum
    @anonymusum 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well a patrol boat isn´t a motor torpedo boat that was built for attacking at high speed.
    And by the way: in these times nothing should be named "Trumpeter" ......

  • @kevin48800
    @kevin48800 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    they dont build them like they used to

    • @peterforden5917
      @peterforden5917 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      she'd have been faster with her original merlins......

    • @davidmg1925
      @davidmg1925 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      correct

    • @ItsFriscoBaby
      @ItsFriscoBaby 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      They don't need to build them that fast any more, technology has changed.

    • @mtb1024
      @mtb1024 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      102 did not have Merlins!!!

  • @julsrealdeal6962
    @julsrealdeal6962 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They old girl 102 was moving sum serious as there lol smoked the youngs but if she had her v18 she be lot faster

  •  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Surely its ladies and not gentlemen?

    • @mtb1024
      @mtb1024 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The crew are Gentlemen although there are Ladies in the crews these days.

  • @ross.venner
    @ross.venner 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So sad. Those little squibbs get names while the hundreds of MTBs, MGBs, Fairmiles etc only ever had numbers, but there were so many other RN ships in those days. How far has the mighty RN fallen.

  • @ericbyers9554
    @ericbyers9554 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thats a bit embarrassing to get beaten by an old timer

  • @drianmortiz9375
    @drianmortiz9375 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Despite of being a granny she is still very fast.

    • @jefferyindorf699
      @jefferyindorf699 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      When you realize that your grandmother was way cooler than you will ever be.