February 3, 2015, West Country (U.K.) "Second World War torpedo boat lowered into Bridgewater Docks" in Somerset.
The 70-foot 1941 Motor Torpedo Boat 219 was placed in the water to test its redone hull. It started leaking a few hours later. All wooden boats leak and the only way to find out what more was needed was to put it in the water.
The day earlier there had been a ceremony.
The 219 was in numerous battles including the "Channel Dash" when the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisnau and Prinz Eugen did so to avoid bombing in Brest, France.
The boat is being restored and the final cost is expected to be around 60,000 pounds, British.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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