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Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
ML122 ML124, 125 ML128 ML208 ML210 ML213 ML233 ML573	Dickie, Bangor & Tarbert, UK: ML122, 124 Doig, Grimsby, UK: ML125 Harris, Appledore, UK: ML128, 233 Risdon Beazley, Northam Bridge, UK: ML208 William Osbourne, Littlehampton, UK: ML210 Mashford Bros, Cremyll, UK: ML213 Jas Miller, St. Monance, UK: ML573	8-12/1940 // 12.1940: ML122, 124, 125, 128 4-5/1941: ML208, 210, 213, 233 2/1943: ML573 8-12/1940 // 1945 (2nd time): ML125	ML210 (15.2.1944)	UK, 5-6/1942: ML122, 124, 208, 233; 3.1945: ML125, 128	1949: ML125 (2nd time), ML213, 573

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/II, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 DCR (12)
Electronic equipment	1940-1942: type 134 sonar 1942-1943: type 286PU radar, type 134 sonar 1945: type 291U or type 293 radar, type 134 sonar
Complement	16

Standard scale images

Project history

The successful multi-purpose boats of Fairmile B type used as minesweepers, minelayers and ASW boats. Wooden, round-bilge hull.

Modernizations

1941 - 1943, a number of boats: - 2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 DCR; + 1 x 1 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DC

1942-1943, most survived earlier boats: + type 286PU radar

1943-1944, most survived earlier boats: - type 286PU radar; + type 291U or type 293 radar

by 1944, many boats: - 2 x 1 - 7.7/87; + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94

Naval service

ML125 was returned to UK in March 1945 but soon transferred again.