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Fairmile B motor launches (1941-1944)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

ML050 - 061

ML062, 1949 - PTC762 Wolf

ML063 - 078

ML079, 1949 - PTC779 Raccoon

ML080 - 103

ML104, 1949 - PTC704 Cougar

ML105

ML106, 1949 PTC706 Beaver

ML107 - 110

ML111, 1949  PTC711 Moose

ML112 - 115

ML116, 1949 PTC716 Reindeer

ML117 - 120

ML121, 1949 PTC721

ML122 - 123

ML124, 1949 PTC724 Elk

ML125 - 129

ML368 -369

ML378 - 379

ML393

Burland, Bermuda: ML368, 369

Belmont Dock, Kingston, Jamaica: ML378, 379

Le Blanc SB, Weymouth: ML393

 

Midland SY: ML050, 051, 081, 082, 094, 095, 108, 118

Taylor, Toronto: ML052, 053, 079, 080, 086 - 088, 112, 113

Greavette, Gravenhurst: ML054 - 056, 077, 078, 089 - 091, 114

Minette-Shields, Bracebridge: ML057 - 059, 074 - 076, 096, 097, 110, 119

Hunter, Orillia: ML060, 061, 085, 092, 093, 109, 116

Mac Craft, Sarnia: ML062, 063, 101 - 105, 115

Vancouver SYd: ML066, 067, 122 - 124

Benson, Vancouver: ML068, 069, 128, 129

Star SB, New Westminster: ML070, 071, 125 - 127

Grew, Pentetanguishene: ML072, 073, 098 - 100, 106 - 107, 117

1 - 12.1941: ML050 - 058, 060, 061, 072, 073

1 - 12.1942: ML368, 369, 378, 379, 393, 059, 062 - 071, 074 - 087, 089, 090, 092 - 094, 096 - 103

1 - 12.1943: ML088, 091, 095, 104 - 115, 117 - 119

1 - 12.1944: ML116, 120 - 129

ML082 (?.1.1945 damaged, never repaired)

France: ML052 (Galantry, 1.1943), ML062 (Langlade, 1943 - 1945), ML063 (Colombier, 1943)

Turkey: ML386 (AB1, 7.1946), ML584 (AB2, 7.1946), ML836 - 838 (AB3 - 5, 7.1946), ML842 (AB6, 7.1946), ML862 - 863 (AB7 - 8, 7.1946)

1945: ML378, 379, 050, 051, 053 - 058, 060, 064 - 066, 068 - 078, 080 - 103, 105, 107 - 110, 112 - 115, 117 - 120, 122, 123, 125 - 129

1946: ML368, 369, 393, 059, 061, 067

1953: PTC721

1956: PTC711 Moose

1957: PTC716 Reindeer

1958: PTC724 Elk

1959: PTC762 Wolf, PTC779 Raccoon, PTC704 Cougar, PTC706 Beaver



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

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 DCR (12)

completed from 1944: 1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DCT (6), 14 DC or 8 - 9 mines

Electronic equipment

completed 1941-1942: type 134 sonar

completed 1942-1943: type 286PU radar, type 134 sonar

completed 1943-1944: type 291U or type 293 radar, type 134 sonar

Complement16


Standard scale images


<i>ML345</i> 1942
ML345 1942


Project history

The successful multi-purpose boats used as minesweepers, minelayers and ASW boats. Wooden, round-bilge hull. 52 more boats (in the list are not specified) have completed as rescue launches. Canadian ML001-080 have renamed ML050-129 later, that has created some mess in numbering since the part of these numbers has already been used for a designation of boats of 1st series. In the end of 1940 for defence again waited landing of German troops to British isles 60 boats of early series have received 2 533 TT removed from former American flushdeckers. 

Modernizations

by 1943, mostly all: - 1 x 1 - 47/40, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87; + 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 DC (8)

Naval service

No significant events.

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