"Mosquito" speedboats, heavily armed with torpedoes, have been delivered to the British Navy. They will revolutionize future warfare.
The boats are called "mosquitoes because they sting and fly awa Their badge is the Flying Scorpion.
Mr. Hubert Scott-Paine, holder of the salt-water speed record for single-engined boats, is the man behind the new speedboat battleships.
Mr. Scott-Paine is employing 1,500 men at Southampton on the construction of these wonder boats that dart across the water at 45 miles an hour.
The Admiralty has just placed with his firm an order for nine motor torpedo boats, to bring the total up to 18.
All the speedboats turned out by his firm for the Government are designed by Mr. Scott-Paine himself Broad-shouldered, square-jawed ginger-haired, and 45, he ran away from school at 14 to go to sea
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