Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Full Scale Ships => Topic started by: Tombsy on August 30, 2012, 11:59:42 pm

Title: Help with boat ID
Post by: Tombsy on August 30, 2012, 11:59:42 pm

This is a still from one of my Dad's 8mm movies he took while with the RCN in the fifties.
I'm curious what the smaller boats are, and I thought it might possibly be in Malta but I'm not sure maybe someone can tell.
The picture is kind of blurry but here's a link to the movie clip as well.
Thanks!
http://youtu.be/yG52zEZdMhc (http://youtu.be/yG52zEZdMhc)

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/Pescador58/Scanned%20pics/8mmNavy1017.jpg)

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: unbuiltnautilus on August 31, 2012, 09:40:12 am

Looks like an HDML, Harbour Defence Motor Launch to me. I will leave it to others to be more precise though..

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: longshanks on August 31, 2012, 09:44:21 pm

I agree that it is a Harbour Defence Motor Launch.

I know some were kept on after the war as survey boats.

Don't think its Malta though - seems more mountainous than I remember.

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: Tombsy on September 01, 2012, 06:03:58 pm

Thanks guys, one of the labels on the movies says "Suva". Would they have had harbour craft like that in Fiji?

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: Tombsy on September 01, 2012, 11:51:10 pm

Now I'm thinking it could be New Zealand and they did get 15 of the Harbour Defense Launches according to Wickipedia.

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: dodes on September 05, 2012, 02:13:17 pm

Where ever it is looking at the coast it looks very cold with all that snow.

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: dodes on September 05, 2012, 02:15:28 pm

Just thought have you try uploading it onto Ships nostalga site, lots of knowledgeable people there who will probaly give you all the info you want.

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: Tombsy on September 05, 2012, 05:55:56 pm

Good idea, thanks for having a look.

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: speedyq on October 20, 2012, 06:22:34 pm

Looks more like Suda in Crete to me and they sometimes have very bouncy water there

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: cdsc123 on May 29, 2013, 09:37:05 pm

Def NZ HDMLs, possibly South Island scenery?

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: vnkiwi on May 30, 2013, 08:34:08 am

Could be Cook Strait, and the outer Marlborough Sounds, top of the South Island, NZ, some of them hills look very familiar.
cheers
vnkiwi

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: Tombsy on June 03, 2013, 02:51:59 am

Thanks guys, my Dad was definitely in NZ on a cruise[size=78%].[/size]

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: dodes on June 06, 2013, 02:24:02 pm

Just make out two funnels, so to me it looks like one of the Ford class HDML's built after the war, I think the last RN one was Droxford. New Zealand and Australia plus most of the Dominion navies had some.

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: superqualicast on October 02, 2013, 11:03:39 am

Quote from: Tombsy on August 30, 2012, 11:59:42 pm

This is a still from one of my Dad's 8mm movies he took while with the RCN in the fifties.
I'm curious what the smaller boats are, and I thought it might possibly be in Malta but I'm not sure maybe someone can tell.
The picture is kind of blurry but here's a link to the movie clip as well.
Thanks!
http://youtu.be/yG52zEZdMhc (http://youtu.be/yG52zEZdMhc)

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/Pescador58/Scanned%20pics/8mmNavy1017.jpg)

Its look like the Myth..

Title: Re: Help with boat ID
Post by: Shipmate60 on October 02, 2013, 01:40:38 pm

Its a HDML (Harbour Defence Motor Launch).
Plenty of information on these craft.


Bob