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COASTAL FORCES

ML143 motor launches (1940-1941/1945-1947)

ML143 1945

Names

RI1 (ex-ML136), 1950- Y861, 1953- P861

MV42 (ex-ML138)

ML143

ML161, 162

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

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/II, 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

RI1, 2: 1 x 1 - 47/40 Mk I, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 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: British-built launches of Fairmile B type.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

ML188 1944

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