ROYAL SOUTH AFRICAN NAVY (SOUTH AFRICA)
ML848 1945
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Names |
ML119 ML135 ML829 - 832 ML846 - 857 |
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Builders |
Alexander Robertson, Sandbank, UK: ML119 Dorset Yacht, Hamworthy, UK: ML135 Louw & Halvorsen, Capetown: ML829, 830, 846 - 848, 854, 855 Thesen, Knysna: ML831, 832, 852, 853 South African Railways, East London: ML849, 856, 857 Williams, East London: ML850, 851 |
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Completed |
1943: ML829 - 832, 846, 847, 854 1944: ML848 - 853, 855 - 857 1940 // 1945: ML119, 135 |
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Losses |
ML830 (16.10.1944) |
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Transfers |
India, 1945: ML829, 831, 832, 846 |
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Discarding |
1945: ML119 1946: ML135, 847-849, 852 - 857 1947: ML850, 851 |
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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, 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 2 - 7.7/94, 2 DCT (6), 14 DC or 8 - 9 mines |
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Electronic equipment |
type 291U or type 293 radar, type 134 sonar |
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Complement |
16 |
Project history: Royal Navy 'Fairmile B' patrol launches completed for Royal South African Navy and transferred from RN.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
© Ivan Gogin, 2016