Swimming CMPs
 

Came across these great pictures of various CMPs being wading tested prior to Normandy. Taken in February 1944 according to some of the photograph backs.
http://www.sol.co.uk/n/nwts/images/T...wtGSWading.jpg
http://www.sol.co.uk/n/nwts/images/T...3tonWading.jpg
http://www.sol.co.uk/n/nwts/images/T...anceWading.jpg

Now here's an idea for one of my 3 tonners!

Love it
 

Particularly the ambulance with the Plimsole line depth markings...

How to get rust into every nook and cranny...

Gordon

Locations
 

The top shot reminds me of the entrance to Southampton Water, with Calshot in the background, to the right off shot...that was RAF Hythe, a Sunderland base. The middle one certainly looks like the sea just off Haslar Hospital, Gosport with HMS Dolphin, the Submarine base, just off to the right. This would be called Stokes Bay then, and there are beaches that extend out some way.