My Boats
British Power Boat Company Motor Gun Boat
This is a model to 1/24 scale made from the deans marine kit. The full size is 71 foot 6 inches long giving the model a length of 36 inches. She is powered by single robbe speed 600 motor with dependant on the size of the sailing water runs on either 7.2 or 8.4 volts. Due to her light weight she has a good turn of speed. The vessel was armed with a 6pdr cannon twin 20mm oerlikon cannons on the super structure and two twin lewis's. Unusually she has a holman projector on the stern which is a tube with a compressed air supply which fires mills hand grenades at the enemy.
British Power Boat Company Motor Torpedo Boat
The Motor torpedo boat model is made from the deans marine kit and is a heavily armed craft. She was fitted with two 18” Torpedo Tubes and a power operated 6pdr gun forward plus a twin 20mm Oerlikon aft. This model has twin shafts each powered by a 550 size 3900 kv brushless motor all powered by a 7.4v lipo or for extra speed a 11.1 volt lipo.
Two pictures added now of the boat on the water at wicksteed Modelboatmayhem weekend thanks to rcmodelwarships youtube channel for the pictures.
