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ITALIAN NAVY (ITALY)

COASTAL FORCES

Fairmile "B" type motor launches (1941-1944/1945-1946)

ML345 1942

Names

(ex-ML238)

(ex-ML240)

(ex-ML273)

(ex-ML280)

(ex-ML283)

(ex-ML336)

(ex-ML349)

(ex-ML351)

(ex-ML354)

(ex-ML355)

(ex-ML356)

(ex-ML359)

(ex-ML384)

(ex-ML458)

(ex-ML459)

(ex-ML463)

(ex-ML469)

(ex-ML471)

(ex-ML839)

(ex-ML865)

partly served under Customs flag with names:

Fais

Macchi

Mazzei

Meattini

Satta

Smalto

Genna

Gori

Agolletti

Steri

Fortuna

Bertoldi

Ciorlieri

D'Antoni

Builders

Aldous Successors, Brightlingsea, UK: (ex-ML463)

Anglo-American Nile Tourist Co., Cairo, Egypt: (ex-ML354), (ex-ML355), (ex-ML356), (ex-ML359), (ex-ML839), (ex-ML865)

Boat Construction Co., Falmouth, UK: (ex-ML336), (ex-ML471)

Thomas Cook, Cairo, Egypt: (ex-ML349), (ex-ML351), (ex-ML384)

Curtis, Looe or Par, UK: (ex-ML280), (ex-ML458)

Johnson & Jago, Leigh on Sea, UK: (ex-ML469)

William Osbourne, Littlehampton, UK: (ex-ML273)

H. J. Percival, Horning, UK: (ex-ML283)

Alexander Robertson, Sandbank, UK: (ex-ML238)

Solent SYd, Sarisbury Green, UK: (ex-ML459)

Thomson & Balfour, Bo`ness, UK: (ex-ML240)

Completed

1 - 12.1941 // 12.1945: (ex-ML283), (ex-ML336)

1 - 12.1942 // 12.1945: (ex-ML355), (ex-ML384), (ex-ML458)

1 - 12.1944 // 12.1945: (ex-ML839), (ex-ML865)

1 - 12.1941 // 1.1946: (ex-ML238), (ex-ML240), (ex-ML273), (ex-ML280)

1 - 12.1942 // 1 - 12.1946: (ex-ML349), (ex-ML351), (ex-ML354), (ex-ML356), (ex-ML359), (ex-ML459), (ex-ML463), (ex-ML469), (ex-ML471)

to Customs:

1947: Fais, Macchi, Mazzei, Meattini, Salta, Smalto

1951: Genna, Gori, Agolletti, Steri, Fortuna, Bertoldi

1952: Ciorlieri, D'Antoni

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1950s?: all

early 1950s: Fais, Macchi, Mazzei, Meattini, Satta, Smalto, Genna, Gori, Agolletti, Steri, Fortuna, Bertoldi, Ciorlieri, D'Antoni

 

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

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 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

Complement

16

Project history: Ex-British MLs of "Fairmile B" type.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

ML194 1944

 

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