The 'little ships' of the Second World War - the fast and highly
manoeuvrable motor torpedo boats and gunboats which fought in
coastal waters all over the world - developed a special kind of
naval warfare. With their daring nightly raids against an enemy's
coastal shipping - and sometimes much larger warships - they
acquired the buccaneering spirit of an earlier age. And never more
so than in the close hand-to-hand battles which raged between
opposing craft when they met in open waters. Large numbers of these
small fighting boats were built by the major naval powers. The
Germans called them Schnellboote (Fast Boats), referred to by the
British as E-boats (E for Enemy). In the Royal Navy they were MTBs
and MGBs. The American equivalent were PT boats (for Patrol
Torpedo). They fought in the narrow waters of the English Channel
and the stormy North Sea, in the Mediterranean off the coasts of
North Africa and Italy and among the islands of the Aegean, across
the Pacific from Pearl Harbour to Leyte Gulf, in Hong Kong and
Singapore, and off Burma's Arakan coast. Bryan Cooper's book traces
the history and development of these craft from their first limited
use in the First World War and the fast motor boats designed in the
1930s for wealthy private clients and water speed record attempts.
With account of the battles which took place during the Second
World War, when the vital importance of coastal waters came to be
recognised, he captures the drama of this highly individual form of
combat. And not least the sea itself which was the common enemy of
all who crewed these frail craft.
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