ML400 motor launches (1942-1943)
ML400 1942
Kahu 1959
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Names |
ML400, 4.1944 - Kahu ML401 - 408 ML409, 1953- P3570 Iris Moana, 1961 - Maori ML410 ML411, 1953- P3571 Kahu, 1961 - Philomel |
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Builders |
Bailey, Auckland: ML400 - 402 Associated Boat Builders, Auckland: ML403 - 406 Shipbuilders Ltd, Auckland: ML407 - 409 Voss Ltd, Auckland: ML410, 411 |
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Completed |
1942: ML400, 403 1943: ML401, 402, 404 - 411 1953: P3570 (2nd time) |
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Losses |
None |
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Transfers |
None |
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Discarding |
1947: ML400 - 408, 409 (1st time), 410 1963: P3570 (2nd time) 1965: P3571 |
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Displacement standard, t |
75.5 |
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Displacement full, t |
85.6 |
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Length, m |
34.8 |
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Breadth, m |
5.59 |
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Draught, m |
1.45 deep load |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 Hall-Scott petrol engines |
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Power, h. p. |
1200 |
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Max speed, kts |
18 |
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Fuel, t |
petrol 10500 l |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 DCR (12) |
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Electronic equipment |
type 291U or type 293 radar, type 134 sonar |
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Complement |
16 |
Project history: The successful multi-purpose boats used as minesweepers, minelayers and ASW boats. Wooden, round-bilge hull. 52 more boats (in the list are not specified) have completed as rescue launches. Canadian ML001-080 have renamed ML050-129 later, that has created some mess in numbering since the part of these numbers has already been used for a designation of boats of 1st series. In the end of 1940 for defence again waited landing of German troops to British isles 60 boats of early series have received 2 533 TT removed from former American flushdeckers.
Modernizations: by 1944, part of boats: - 1 x 1 - 47/40, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87; + 1 x 1 - 40/51 QF Mk XIV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 1 DCT (6)
Naval service: No significant events.
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