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Fairmile "A" type motor launches (ML100) (12, 1940)


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ML105 1940

Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

ML100 - 111

Aldous Successors, Brightlingsea: ML110

Brooke Marine, Oulton Broad: ML103

Curtis, Looe: ML105

Dickie, Bangor: ML104

James N. Miller, East Shore: ML108

William Osbourne, Littlehampton: ML109

Alex Robertson, Sandbank: ML106

James A. Silver, Rosneath: ML101, 111

Sussex SB, Shoreham: ML107

Woodnutt, Bembridge: ML100, 102

5 - 8.1940: ML100-111

ML103 (24.8.1942), ML108 (5.9.1943), ML109 (30.10.1940), ML111 (25.11.1940)

none

1946: ML105

1947: ML100 - 102, 104, 106, 107, 110



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

66

Displacement full, t 
Length, m33.5
Breadth, m5.31
Draught, m1.68 deep load
No of shafts3
Machinery

3 Hall-Scott petrol engines

Power, h. p.1800
Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

petrol 5460 l

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 12 DC
Electronic equipmenttype 134 sonar
Complement16


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<i>ML100</i> 1940
ML100 1940


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<i>ML105</i> 1940
ML105 1940


Project history

These wooden-hulled boats had too big tactical diameter and small endurance.

Modernizations

1941, all survived converted to minelayers with capacity of 6 - 9 mines instead of DCs

about 1942, all survived: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 286PU radar

1943-1944, most survived: - type 286PU radar; + type 291U radar

by 1945, all survived: - mine-laying capability; + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 DCT, 12 DC

Naval service

no significant events.