The MTBs Attack in the Battle for Hong Kong

Lt John B Collse H.K.R.N.V.R. [MTB 12]

MTB 12 was lost in action after taking a direct hit on the conning tower and crashing into to wall at Kowloon on 19th December 1941

Remembered with Honour

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For more information on John Colls click here.

 

 

 

MTB 12 on the rocks

Photos from Lt Collingwood's collection ©

Tel P.O. Alf D Hunt was on the conning tower with Colls when hit & woke up on the beach tied up with barbed wire by the Japanese. A/B Bartlett managed to swim ashore and was taken to the Queen Mary hospital suffering immersion.

Tel P.O. Alf Hunt G3CHU is Chairman/Secretary of the Far East POW [FEPOW] association [Birmingham]

Click here for FEPOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MTB 12 on the rocks

Photo from Lt Collingwood's collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MTB 12 on patrol with 07

Photo from Lt Ashby's collection ©

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MTB 12 on sea trials at HMS Vernon 1938

Photo from Lt E M (Mickey) Thorpe RN ©

 

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MTB 12 in the Kowloon camber

Photo from the Ross family collection ©

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MTB 12 at HMS Vernon 1938

Photo from Lt E M (Mickey) Thorpe RN ©

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MTB 12 being hoisted

Photo from the Ross family collection ©

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MTB 12 at HMS Vernon 1938

Photo from Lt E M (Mickey) Thorpe RN ©

 

 

 

Caudae Spiculum Cave
(Beware the sting in the tail)