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ML143 motor launches (1940-1941/1945-1947)


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ML188 1944

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

RI1 (ex-ML136), 1950- Y861, 1953- P861

MV42 (ex-ML138)

ML143

ML161, 162

ML164

RI2 (ex-ML181), 1950- Y862, 1953- P862

ML260

Alexander Robertson, Sandbank, UK: RI1

Aldous Successors, Brightlingsea, UK: MV42

Curtis, Looe or Par, UK: ML143, 161

Dickie, Bangor & Tarbert, UK: ML162

Boat Construction Co., Falmouth, UK: ML164

John Sadd, Maldon, UK: RI2

Thornycroft, Hampton, UK: ML260

8-12/1940 // 1-11/1945: MV42, ML162, 164

1941 // 1.1945: ML143, 161, 260

8-12/1940 // 3.1947: RI1

1941 // 3.1947: RI2

None

None

1946: ML143, 161, 162, 164, 260

1953: MV42

1955: P861, 862



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

75.5

Displacement full, t85.6
Length, m34.8
Breadth, m5.59
Draught, m1.45 deep load
No of shafts2
Machinery

2 Hall-Scott petrol engines

Power, h. p.1200
Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

petrol 10500 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I/II, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DCT (6), 14 DC or 8 - 9 mines

RI1, 2: 1 x 1 - 47/40 Mk I, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DCT (6), 14 DC or 8 - 9 mines

Electronic equipment

type 291U or type 293 radar, type 134 sonar

Complement16


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<i>ML143</i> 1945
ML143 1945


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<i>ML188</i> 1944
ML188 1944


Project history

British-built launches of Fairmile B type.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.