Back in 2021, we bought an old boat we found on ebay! We never thought we would ever own a boat this large and rotten, but finding out she was a DDay veteran we decided to save her.

We have been working hard to fight the rot and make her strong again, to hopefully last another 80 years!

Thank you to all of our supporters who have made this project possible

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About Sarinda ML1392

Wartime Activities
6/44 Operation Neptune Invasion of Normandy
149th ML Flotilla
ML1295, ML1309, ML1383, ML1387, ML1389, ML1391, ML1392, ML1393, ML1407, ML1409, ML1421. ML1422
6/6/44 Channel Marker at Gold Beach on DDay
Distributing instructions in the assault anchorage after the first landings in Normandy (Gazette Date 19/12/44)
6/3/45 Captured a German Biber Type midget submarine off Breskens in the Scheldt Estuary. Eleven Bibers had sortied that day. Four were found abandoned along the coast at North Beveland, Knocke, Domberg and Zeebrugge.
One was sunk by gunfire off Westkapelle on 8 March and five vanished.

Post War Fate
1946 Fast Despatch Boat = FDB73
10/47 HM Customs & Excise = Valiant
1967 Sold = Frol Pejo
1974 =Sarinda (Charter work on Crinan Canal)
198091 Extensive conversion to luxury motor yacht
11/95 Base ported at Liverpool



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