"Fairmile B" submarine-chasers (SC1466) (1942 / 1942)

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SC1472 1943

Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
SC1466 - 1473 (ex-ML292 - 299)	Leblanc SB, Weymouth, Canada: SC1466-1473	9 - 12.1942 // 9 - 12.1942: SC1466-1473	SC1470 (collision 1943, repaired as miscellaneous auxiliary IX505 Panther)	Mexico, 11.1943: SC1466, 1469, 1471 (CS11 - 13)	1.1946: SC1467 1-3/1948: SC1468, 1472, 1473

Names

Builders

Commissioned

Losses

Transfers

Discarding

SC1466 - 1473 (ex-ML292 - 299)

Leblanc SB, Weymouth, Canada: SC1466-1473

9 - 12.1942 // 9 - 12.1942: SC1466-1473

SC1470 (collision 1943, repaired as miscellaneous auxiliary IX505 Panther)

Mexico, 11.1943: SC1466, 1469, 1471 (CS11 - 13)

1.1946: SC1467

1-3/1948: SC1468, 1472, 1473

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	75.5
Displacement full, t	85.6
Length, m	34.8
Breadth, m	5.59
Draught, m	1.45 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Hall-Scott petrol engines
Power, h. p.	1120
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	petrol 10500 l
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 1 DCT
Electronic equipment	SW-1C radar, sonar
Complement	28

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SC1472 1943

Project history

In 1942, while the USN yet has not started to receive chasers in lumps, eight Canadian-built "Fairmile B" type chasers were received from RN by "reverse lend-lease".

Modernizations

None.

1.1946, all: 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 DCT, SW-1C radar, sonar