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Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
ML400, 4.1944 - Kahu ML401 - 408 ML409, 1953- P3570 Iris Moana, 1961 - Maori ML410 ML411, 1953- P3571 Kahu, 1961 - Philomel	Bailey, Auckland: ML400 - 402 Associated Boat Builders, Auckland: ML403 - 406 Shipbuilders Ltd, Auckland: ML407 - 409 Voss Ltd, Auckland: ML410, 411	1942: ML400, 403 1943: ML401, 402, 404 - 411 1953: P3570 (2nd time)	None	None	1947: ML400 - 408, 409 (1st time), 410 1963: P3570 (2nd time) 1965: P3571

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 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 DCR (12)
Electronic equipment	type 291U or type 293 radar, type 134 sonar
Complement	16

Standard scale images

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 1944, part of boats: - 1 x 1 - 47/40, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87; + 1 x 1 - 40/51 QF Mk XIV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 1 DCT (6)

Naval service

No significant events.