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ML119 patrol boats (1943-1944, 1940/1945)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

ML119

ML135

ML829 - 832

ML846 - 857

Alexander Robertson, Sandbank, UK: ML119

Dorset Yacht, Hamworthy, UK: ML135

Louw & Halvorsen, Capetown: ML829, 830, 846 - 848, 854, 855

Thesen, Knysna: ML831, 832, 852, 853

South African Railways, East London: ML849, 856, 857

Williams, East London: ML850, 851

1943: ML829 - 832, 846, 847, 854

1944: ML848 - 853, 855 - 857

1940 // 1945: ML119, 135

ML830 (16.10.1944)

India, 1945: ML829, 831, 832, 846

1945: ML119

1946: ML135, 847-849, 852 - 857

1947: ML850, 851



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, 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

type 291U or type 293 radar, type 134 sonar

Complement16


Standard scale images


<i>ML848 </i>1945
ML848 1945


Project history

Royal Navy 'Fairmile B' patrol launches completed for Royal South African Navy and transferred from RN.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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