ML100 1940
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Names |
ML100 - 111 |
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Builders |
Aldous Successors, Brightlingsea: ML110 Brooke Marine, Oulton Broad: ML103 Curtis, Looe: ML105 Dickie, Bangor: ML104 James N. Miller, East Shore: ML108 William Osbourne, Littlehampton: ML109 Alex Robertson, Sandbank: ML106 James A. Silver, Rosneath: ML101, 111 Sussex SB, Shoreham: ML107 Woodnutt, Bembridge: ML100, 102 |
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Completed |
5 - 8.1940: ML100-111 |
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Losses |
ML103 (24.8.1942), ML108 (5.9.1943), ML109 (30.10.1940), ML111 (25.11.1940) |
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Transfers |
none |
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Discarding |
1946: ML105 1947: ML100 - 102, 104, 106, 107, 110 |
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Displacement standard, t |
66 |
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Displacement full, t |
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Length, m |
33.5 |
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Breadth, m |
5.31 |
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Draught, m |
1.68 deep load |
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No of shafts |
3 |
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Machinery |
3 Hall-Scott petrol engines |
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Power, h. p. |
1800 |
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Max speed, kts |
25 |
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Fuel, t |
petrol 5460 l |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87, 12 DC |
| Sensors | type 134 sonar |
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Complement |
16 |
Project history: These wooden-hulled boats had too big tactical diameter and small endurance.
Modernizations: 1941, all survived converted to minelayers with capacity of 6 - 9 mines instead of DCs
about 1942, all survived: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 286PU radar
1943-1944, most survived: - type 286PU radar; + type 291U radar
by 1945, all survived: - mine-laying capability; + 1 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 DCT, 12 DC
Naval service: no significant events.
ML105 1940
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