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Shipyard with the intention of transforming it into one of the most modern mass production boat building yards in the country. Together with his chief designer, Fred Cooper, the company produced the 26-foot single step hydroplane racing boat
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On 3 August 1931 the factory burnt to the ground, but was rapidly rebuilt as the most modern and efficient boatyard in Britain.
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All unfinished contracts were cancelled at the cessation of hostilities and the British Power Boat Company closed in 1946.
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petrol engines giving a maximum speed of 29 knots (some of the later ones were fitted with Perkins S6M diesels).
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In 1939, due to the difficulties in obtaining British engines, Scott-Paine took PT-9 to the US to enable
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was a British manufacturer of motor boats, particularly racing boats and later military patrol boats.
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MGB 66 at speed off the coast near Fort William, Scotland (1942)
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MGB 75, a British Power Boat Company motor gun boat at HMS
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Craft for the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force during WW2
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the British Power Boat Company built large numbers of
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Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United Kingdom
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Index


Motor Gun Boat
Hubert Scott-Paine
Hythe
Miss England I
Hubert Scott-Paine
Miss Britain III
seaplane tenders
Air Ministry
T. E. Shaw (T. E. Lawrence)
Royal Air Force
Meadows
Napier Sea Lion
Motor Torpedo Boats
chine
British Admiralty
Imperial Airways
flying boats

Elco
Packard

World War II
Motor Torpedo Boats
High Speed Motor Launches
Motor Gun Boats
Sybil Andrews
some paintings of the boats
Fairmile Marine
Vospers

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