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ML122 motor launches (1940/1940, 1941-1943)


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, 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

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

Complement16


Standard scale images


<i>ML233</i> 1942
ML233 1942


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.