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AB2 1948

Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
AB1 (ex-ML386) AB2 (ex-ML584) AB3 - 5 (ex-ML836 - 838) AB6 (ex-ML842) AB7 (ex-ML862) AB8 (ex-ML863)	Johnson & Jago, Leigh on Sea, UK: AB2 Thomas Cook, Cairo, Egypt: AB7, 8 Anglo-American Nile Tourist Co., Cairo, Egypt: AB1, 3 - 6	1943 // 7.1946: AB1 - 3, 6 1944 // 7.1946: AB4, 5, 7, 8	None	None	1970 - 1973: AB1 - 8

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	75.5
Displacement full, t	85.6
Length, m	34.8
Breadth, m	5.59
Draught, m	1.45 deep load
No of shafts	2
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 Hotchkiss Mk 1.2, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 4, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 4, 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
Complement	16

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Project history

Patrol launches of Fairmile B type transferred to Turkey after service under British flag.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.