page_title: 29th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla
section_title: 71ft 6ins (Mk.VI) Type 'G' motor torpedo boat
hierarchical_section_title: 29th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla / 71ft 6ins (Mk.VI) Type 'G' motor torpedo boat
caption_attribution_description: English: MTB 463 Motor Torpedo Boat
context_page_description: The 29th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla was a motor torpedo boat flotilla manned and crewed by Royal Canadian Navy reservists in service with the Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The 29th MTB Flotilla had a short & distinguished history in the English Channel, including action during the landings at Normandy in 1944.
context_section_description: Built by the British Power Boat Company (BPB) at their yard in Hythe, Hampshire, originally eight 71ft 6in (known to the Canadians as Type ‘G’ ) MTBs (459, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466) were assigned to the 29th MTB Flotilla, with three more boats (485, 486, 491) added later to replace damaged or sunken vessels.  Originally designed as Motor Gun Boats (MGBs), they were modified and re-designated as MTBs. Driven by three Packard V-12 Supercharged 1250 H.P. engines, each with a 2,500 gallon capacity of 100 octane gas, these vessels had an operational radius of about 140 miles while cruising at 25 knots, and a top speed of some 40 knots. MTB 486 is the only known MTB of the 29th MTB Flotilla to survive into the 21st century as a civilian houseboat renamed Sungo.
caption: MTB 463
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