Coastal Motor Boats
Martin Kelly
According to conventional naval history, the Coastal Motor Boat was the brainchild of three enterprising young Royal Navy officers in the early stages of WWI. This new book reveals that the truth was far more complex, and historically more significant. Research in previously unused family records shows that the shipbuilder John I Thornycroft played a pivotal role, building on his pre-war experience in the new sport of fast motor-boat racing, without which the technologically advanced CMB could never have been built. This book goes on to analyse the original role for which these boats were specifically designed - an attack on the German High Seas Fleet in its protected anchorages - and why the operation never took place. Later activities are covered but by the end of the war many regarded the CMB as a disappointment, if not a downright failure.
Coastal Motor Boats
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