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ML143 motor launches

ML143 1945

Names

RI1 (ex-ML136), 1950- Y861, 1953- P861; MV42 (ex-ML138); ML143; ML161; ML162; ML164; RI2 (ex-ML181), 1950- Y862, 1953- P862; ML260

Builders

Alexander Robertson, Sandbank, UK: RI1

Aldous Successors, Brightlingsea, UK: MV42

Curtis, Looe or Par, UK: ML143, 161

Dickie, Bangor & Tarbert, UK: ML162

Boat Construction Co., Falmouth, UK: ML164

John Sadd, Maldon, UK: RI2

Thornycroft, Hampton, UK: ML260

Completed

8-12/1940 // 1-11/1945: MV42, ML162, 164

1941 // 1/1945: ML143, 161, 260

8-12/1940 // 3/1947: RI1

1941 // 3/1947: RI2

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

1946: ML143, 161, 162, 164, 260

1953: MV42

1955: P861, 862

 

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

Hall-Scott petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

petrol 10500 l

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DCT (6), 14 DC or 8 - 9 mines

Sensors

type 286 or 291 or 970 radar, sonar

Complement

16

Ship project history: British-built launches of Fairmile B type.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

ML188 1944

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