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Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
ML380 ML390 - 391 ML412 - 419 ML420, 1947 - ML6420 ML421 ML436 - 441 ML474 - 477 ML829 ML831 - 832 ML843 - 845 ML847 ML872	Louw & Halvorsen, Capetown, South Africa: ML380, 829, 847 Bombay DYd: ML390, 391, 420, 421 Garden Reach, Calcutta: ML412 - 415, 418, 439, 440, 476, 477 India General Navigation, Calcutta: ML416, 417, 436 - 438, 474, 475 Burn, Calcutta: ML419, 441 H. Mohatta, Karachi: ML843 - 845 Alcock Asdown, Karachi: ML872	1942: ML476, 477 1943: ML412, 413, 416, 417, 436, 437, 474, 475 1944: ML390, 391, 414, 415, 418-420, 843, 844 1942 // 1944: ML438-441 1945: ML421, 872 1942 // 1945: ML380 1943 // 1945: ML829, 831, 832, 847	incomplete: ML845	None	1946: ML437, 829, 831, 832, 847 1947: ML380, 390, 391, 412-419, 6420, 421, 436, 438 - 441, 474-477, 843, 844, 872

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, 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	commissioned 1942: type 134 sonar commissioned 1942-1943: type 286PU radar, type 134 sonar commissioned 1943-1945: type 291U or type 293 radar, type 134 sonar
Complement	16

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Project history

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

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.