The second instalment of three (Part I in NR107/1) on the exploits of the RN in the Baltic immediately after WWI – the operational tempo heightens with a daring raid on Kronstadt. The Kronstadt Raid Planning for CMB Operations In 1919 the Coastal Motor Boat service was still very much a new branch of the Royal Navy. It was formed in 1917 at a base on Osea Island on the Blackwater River in Essex. The first operational boats arrived in April 1917. They were of two types and known by their length, the ‘forty-footer’ and the ‘fifty-five-footer’. Agar’s two boats were forty-footers. It is not clear…
