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Gay Vikg was a blocka nner of the Brish Merchant Navy. Origally unr nstctn as a Motor Gun Boat, Gay Vikg was one of eight vsels that were orred by the Turkish Navy, but were requisned by the Royal Navy to serve wh Coastal Forc durg the Send World War. Origally tend to be HMMGB 506, the vsel was stead pleted as a blocka nner for the Merchant Navy and named Gay Vikg. She operated out of Hull on two separate operatns to the Sndavian untri. She was one of the more succsful of her group, but was lost a llisn while returng om one of the operatns. Reports dite that she may have been salvaged after this and gone on to sail for a nsirable number of years as a civilian vsel.

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MV GAY VIKG

Gay Vikg was a blocka nner of the Brish Merchant Navy. Origally unr nstctn as a Motor Gun Boat, Gay Vikg was one of eight vsels that were orred by the Turkish Navy, but were requisned by the Royal Navy to serve wh Coastal Forc durg the Send World War. Origally tend to be HMMGB 506, the vsel was stead pleted as a blocka nner for the Merchant Navy and named Gay Vikg. She operated out of Hull on two separate operatns to the Sndavian untri. She was one of the more succsful of her group, but was lost a llisn while returng om one of the operatns. Reports dite that she may have been salvaged after this and gone on to sail for a nsirable number of years as a civilian vsel. * hms gay viking *

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Origally unr nstctn as a Motor Gun Boat, Gay Vikg was one of eight vsels that were orred by the Turkish Navy, but were requisned by the Royal Navy to serve wh Coastal Forc durg the Send World War.

Origally tend to be HMMGB 506, the vsel was stead pleted as a blocka nner for the Merchant Navy and named Gay Vikg.

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HMS Gay Vikg was a Motor Gun Boat of the Royal Navy, servg wh Coastal Forc durg the Send World War.

Gay Vikg was one of eight vsels that were orred by the Turkish Navy, but were taken over by the Royal Navy durg the Send World War to serve as a flotilla of blocka nners. Dignated as Gun Boat 506 but sailg unr the name Gay Vikg she operated out of Hull on two separate operatns to the Sndavian untri.

MV GAY VIKG

HMS Gay Vikg was a Motor Gun Boat of the Royal Navy, servg wh Coastal Forc durg the Send World War. Gay Vikg was one of eight vsels that were orred by the Turkish Navy, but were taken over by the Royal Navy durg the Send World War to serve as a flotilla of blocka nners... * hms gay viking *

Gay Vikg was built by Camper and Nicholson as part of an orr of eight Motor Gun Boats placed by the Turkish Navy. First, gave the boats nam: 504 beme Hopewell, 505 beme Nonsuch, 506 beme Gay Vikg, 507 beme Gay Corsair and 508 beme Master Standfast.

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HMS Gay Vikg unrway as a Motor Gun Boat. This is HMS Gay Vikg. It’s actually a Brish answer to the E-Boat. (I thk that’s a fair scriptor that we’re talkg about the Schnellboote as existed the Brish imagatn, as opposed to borg old realy.) Gay Vikg was built around a Paxman [...] * hms gay viking *

The five boats, cludg Gay Vikg, were first ployed September 1943. Gay Vikg was the only vsel to make a succsful round trip, returng to Bra on 30 October rryg 40 tons of rgo.

Gay Vikg eventually ma three trips, spe damagg her port enge crankshaft on 17 March 1944. Hopewell, Nonsuch and Gay Corsair all dropped their civilian nam and returned to their official signatn 1944.

HMS GAY VIKG

The Gay class were a class of twelve fast patrol boats that served wh the Royal Navy om the early 1950s. All were named after typ of soldiers or ary or related figur, prefixed wh 'Gay'. The class uld be fted as eher motor gun boats or motor torpedo boats, pendg on the... * hms gay viking *

For some reason, Gay Vikg apparently ntued to sail unr that name. 2005) and Gay Vikg were ployed on one Moonshe n early 1945. While makg the return voyage on 5 Febary 1945, Gay Vikg and Hopewell llid.

The seamen of the Gay Vikg were taken off and she subsequently sank. ↑ Gay Vikg. HMS Gay Vikg unrway as a Motor Gun Boat.

GAY-CLASS FAST PATROL BOAT

1) HMS ``Gay Vikg was a Motor Gun Boat of the Royal Navy, servg wh Coastal Forc durg the Send World War. Gay Vikg was one of eight vse... * hms gay viking *

This is HMS Gay Vikg. ) Gay Vikg was built around a Paxman VRB high speed diel enge, one of a number of high-speed diels beg phed by Brish enge builrs as an “answer” to the E-boat. The Navy tend to treat this as a qutn no-one had actually asked, and the n was limed to eight boats orred by the Turks, of which Gay Vikg was taken up by the Brish and ed as a blocka nner on the Swedish route durg the war, as was fast enough to outn anythg the Germans uld e to chase , jt so long as the enge agreed to n for the whole trip.

There were five of the ltle craft – the Master Standfast, the Hopewell, the Nonsuch, the Gay Corsair and the Gay Vikg – each 117 feet long, built siar to a torpedo boat, manned by a hand-picked Brish crew of 20 volunteers, flyg the Red Ensign of the Merchant Service-and adorned the pta’s b by a portra of Sir Francis Drake.

Early on an October morng, the Gay Vikg, first of the tadpole fleet to make the n, dashed through the blocka and safely entered Lysekil’s harbor-where she was weled by nearly 5, 000 Swedish townspeople. The sailors were fortably lodged the town’s bt hotel – until, two days after her arrival, the Gay Vikg was rted by Swedish warships to the outer lim of ntral waters.

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HMS Gay Vikg unrway as a Motor Gun Boat. This is HMS Gay Vikg. It’s actually a Brish answer to the E-Boat. (I thk that’s a fair scriptor that we’re talkg about the Schnellboote as existed the Brish imagatn, as opposed to borg old realy.) Gay Vikg was built around a Paxman […]… * hms gay viking *

Only one ship was lost: On the first sailg of the ltle fleet after Gay Vikg’s ial n, the Master Standfast was attacked by a German patrol ship and ptured after her pta was killed. Name: MV Gay Vikg.

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Gay Vikg was a blocka nner of the Brish Merchant Navy. Origally unr nstctn as a Motor Gun Boat, Gay Vikg was one of eight vsels that were orred by the Turkish Navy, but were requisned by the Royal Navy to serve wh Coastal Forc durg the Send World War... * hms gay viking *

Gay-class fast patrol boat. HMS Gay Bombardier, fted out the motor torpedo gunboat sign, unrgog trials Portsmouth Harbour 1953.

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The Gay class were a class of twelve fast patrol boats that served wh the Royal Navy om the early 1950s. All were named after typ of soldiers or ary or related figur, prefixed wh 'Gay'. The class uld be fted as eher motor gun boats or motor torpedo boats, pendg on the... * hms gay viking *

The Gay class were a class of twelve fast patrol boats that served wh the Royal Navy om the early 1950s.

GAY VIKG

HMS Gay Vikg unrway as a Motor Gun Boat. This is HMS Gay Vikg. It’s actually a Brish answer to the E-Boat. (I thk that’s a fair scriptor that we’re talkg about the Schnellboote as existed the Brish imagatn, as opposed to borg old realy.) Gay Vikg was built around a Paxman [...] * hms gay viking *

All were named after typ of soldiers or ary or related figur, prefixed wh 'Gay'. [1][2] The Gays were the last petrol powered warships to be built for the Royal Navy.

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[3] They were lnched between 1952 and 1954, wh the last of the class, Gay Forter, beg lnched March 1954. Most of the vsels served for a before beg retired and sold off, though the longt-lived, Gay Charteer, was only sold off 1971, after nearly 20 years service.

[2] HMS Gay Charger was mand by Nigel Lawson durg his Natnal Service.

Gay Dragoon appeared as 1087 The Ship That Died of Shame, a film based on a book by Nicholas Monsarrat and starrg Richard Attenborough. [1][2] Gay Fencer beme a target vsel and was sunk off Portland 1968, while Gay Archer was damaged while beg livered to the Navy, and then damaged when a vsel she was moored next to explod.

GAY-CLASS PATROL BOAT

Gay Archer. Gay Bombardier. Gay Bowman.

Gay Biser. Gay Caribeer.

Gay Cavalier. Gay Centurn.

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Gay Charger. Gay Charteer. Gay Dragoon.

GAY-CLASS FAST PATROL BOAT

Gay Fencer. Gay Forter. Durg the Send World War the Royal Navy also sailed HMS Gay Vikg and HMS Gay Corsair, a pair of motor gun boats.

The were superficially siar to the later Gay-class, although their primary armament was a mixture of QF 6 pounr Hotchkiss, Oerlikon 20 mm nnon, and pth charg. Both had left service by the top of the Gay-class' troductn.

"Gay Class Fast Attack Craft". 4 "Gay Class Boats".

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