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I'm stretching my memory here, but if I recall correctly, the "golden" boats operated out of Bowmore on the Isle of Islay during the early years of the war in a patrol role, pending deliveries of Sunderlands. Is this correct, and if so, I presume they would have been armed for this purpose. Emoscopes ^Talk 11:48, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Indeed! Barnes & James refers to Bowmore on Loch Indaal, where the first boat arrived on Christmas Eve 1940. They had been commandeered for the RAF and fitted with gun turrets, armour plating, bomb racks etc. Only one (Golden Hind) survived the war, eventually being scrapped in 1954.TraceyR 13:52, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)