Despite the promise of a motor lifeboat, the first boat stationed at Fowey was a 12-oared pulling and sailing boat.

Attacks were made by motor torpedo boats and destroyers stationed in advance of the battle line.

There have been seven boats stationed here since 1875, the first four pulling-and-sailing types, the last three motor-driven.

That night, American motor torpedo boats stationed well down in Surigao Strait made the first encounter with torpedo attacks.

It also had a number of boats stationed overseas in Italy's colonial empire.

The torpedo boats stationed there with Hilo soon had a chance to fight, as Japanese efforts to reinforce their Lae and Salamaua garrisons led to the Battle of the Bismarck Sea from 2-4 March.

Instead, he assigned six boats stationed at Dreger Harbor in New Guinea and Kiriwina Island to operate along the south coast of New Britain east of Arawe each night, and asked only for emergency refuelling facilities at Arawe.

Diamond Rock was to be considered a captured enemy ship, and was technically treated as a tender to one of the boats stationed there, commissioned by the Admiralty as the sloop Diamond Rock, superseding Hood's use of Fort Diamond.

Boats began to use it operationally in early 1944, and by June 1944 about half of the boats stationed in the French bases had snorkels fitted.

The last boat stationed here was the Kate Walker which arrived in 1931.