Cocker, Maurice (2006). Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865. Stroud: Tempus Publ. p. 121. ISBN9780752438627.
HM Motor Gun Boat 501 was a Motor Gun Boat operated by Royal NavyCoastal Forces during the Second World War. She was initially built as a combined anti-submarine boat and motor torpedo boat, but instead was completed as a motor gun boat.[1]
Loss
HM MGB 501 was lost off Land's End on 27 July 1942, after an internal explosion.[1]
Notes
^ abCocker, Maurice (2006). Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865. Stroud: Tempus Publ. p. 121. ISBN9780752438627.