Historic craft set for saving in Portsmouth with £2.4m funding
![Foxtrot 8, a landing craft formerly aboard HMS Fearless which took part in the Falklands conflict, will be restored](https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/webimg/legacy_oak_89397476.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65&enable=upscale)
![Foxtrot 8, a landing craft formerly aboard HMS Fearless which took part in the Falklands conflict, will be restored](/img/placeholder.png)
The Memorial Fleet will be run by Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust with funds from Libor fines.
Veterans will take part in building and restoring of boats, as part of a project with the Company of Makers, a charity.
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Hide AdThe trust will work with Boat International Boatbuilding Training College (IBTC) Portsmouth, Highbury College and the Trust’s Boathouse 4 volunteers.
![The Second World War Motor Gun Boat (MGB) 81 will receive new engines. Picture: Simon Jenkins](https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/webimg/legacy_oak_89397475.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65)
![The Second World War Motor Gun Boat (MGB) 81 will receive new engines. Picture: Simon Jenkins](/img/placeholder.png)
Peter Goodship, consultant chief executive of the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust said: ‘The creation of this operational fleet commemorating the role these pioneering craft played in both World Wars will provide a fitting tribute to the veterans who crewed them and a reminder to us all of the heroism these crews displayed in the defence of our nation.
‘The Fleet will also create a new attraction within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, enabling visitors to access the water in a way not presently possible.’
Caroline Barrie Smith, business and finance director of IBTC Portsmouth added: ‘We are particularly excited to offer service veteran men and women the opportunity to train on the types of craft that they, and their predecessors, may have served on.’
A new jetty will be built to home the fleet.
![Armed Steam Cutter 26 awaiting restoration in Boathouse 4, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard](https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/webimg/legacy_oak_89397473.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65)
![Armed Steam Cutter 26 awaiting restoration in Boathouse 4, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard](/img/placeholder.png)
Craft set to be restored include:
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Hide Adn The First World War Armed Steam Cutter, Falmouth, which served in the Battle of Jutland in 1916
nFoxtrot 8, a landing craft formerly aboard HMS Fearless which took part in the Falklands conflict, will be restored.
n The Second World War Motor Gun Boat (MGB) 81 will receive new engines.
n The Trust will construct a replica of Coastal Motor Boat (CMB) 4 which, under the command of Lt Augustus Agar, sank the Bolshevik cruiser Oleg in 1919.