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"Fairmile B" submarine chasers

SC1466 1942

Names

SC1466 - 1473 (ex-ML292 - 299)

Builders

Leblanc SB, Weymouth, Canada

Commissioned

9 - 12/1942 // 9 - 12/1942

Losses

SC1470 (collision 1943, repaired as miscellaneous auxiliary IX505 Panther)

Transfers

Mexico, 11/1943: SC1466, 1469, 1471 (CS11 - 13)

Discading

1/1946: SC1467

1-3/1948: SC1468, 1472, 1473

 

Displacement standard, t

75.5

Displacement full, t

85.6

Length, m

34.8

Breadth, m

5.59

Draught, m

1.45 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Hall-Scott petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1120

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

petrol 10500 l
Endurance, nm (kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 1 DCT

Sensors

SW-1C radar, sonar

Complement 28

   

Ship project history: In 1942, while the USN yet has not started to receive chasers in lumps, eight Canadian-built "Fairmile B" type chasers were received from RN by "reverse lend-lease".

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

SC1472 1943

 

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