BRITISH VOSPER TORPEDO BOAT PERKASA

The P150 Vosper Motor Torpedo Boat was built by Vospers at Portchester, England. Brave Swordsman and Brave Borderer were the last operational fast attack craft built for the Royal Navy and entered service to ensure that experience and skills related to Coastal Forces survived.

Their design was developed in the mid-1950's from early experience gained with the Bold Class Fast Attack Craft and was based around the inclusion of the Bristol Siddeley Proteus gas turbines. Although only two were constructed for the Royal Navy,further units of a simplified export design were subsequently built for the navies of West Germany, Denmark, Greece, Malaysia, Brunei and Libya and the design later formed the basis of the Royal Navy's Scimitar Class Fast Training Craft.

The two vessels could be configured as Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) or Motor Gun Boats (MGBs) - they could carry either one 40mm Bofor gun, four 21" torpedoes and.two small depth charges or two 40mm Bofor guns and two 21" torpedoes. They had originally been intended to carry a 3.3-inch gun in a forward turrets, but trials on Bold Pioneer had proven unsuccessful.