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    The Fairmile B motor launch (often abbreviated to 'ML') was a very numerous class of motor launch produced in kit form by British boatbuilder Fairmile Marine...
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    Canadian Fairmile B was a motor launch built during the Second World War for the Royal Canadian Navy. They were adaptations of the British Fairmile B motor...
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  • builder: Fairmile A motor launch Fairmile B motor launch Fairmile C motor gun boat Fairmile D motor torpedo boat Fairmile H landing craft Fairmile Engineering...
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    The Fairmile D motor torpedo boat was a type of British motor torpedo boat (MTB) and motor gunboat (MGB), conceived by entrepreneur Noel Macklin of Fairmile...
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    The Fairmile A motor launch was a coastal motor launch designed by Norman Hart for the Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy in World War II. The prototype...
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    14 May 1941 Q 400 Q 400 Fairmile B class Motor launch 1943 1945 Suffered engine room fire and explosion. Q 401 Q 401 Fairmile B class Motor launch 1943...
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    The Fairmile C motor gun boat was a type of motor gunboat designed by Norman Hart of Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy. An intermediate design, twenty-four...
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  • Launch Fairmile A motor launch Fairmile B motor launch Harbour Defence Motor Launch Motor torpedo boats Vosper 73 ft motor torpedo boat Fairmile D motor...
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    submarines and, later, depth charges. Additional motor launches of the Fairmile A, Fairmile B and other classes were built for World War II. The British sub chasers...
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    first naval base. HMNZS Kahu was a Fairmile B motor launch, and it functioned as an administrative base for the Fairmile flotillas during World War II. It...
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    RML 497 (Rescue Motor Launch number 497) is a former Royal Navy Fairmile B motor launch from World War II. She was named Western Lady III on her entry...
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  • Fairmile Marine was a British boat building company founded in 1939 by the car manufacturer Noel Macklin. Macklin used the garage at his home at Cobham...
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    Coastal Forces concept by building and employing the British-designed Fairmile B motor launch for operations off the coast of Canada and in the Caribbean...
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    HMC ML Q050 (category Royal Canadian Navy Fairmile B motor launch boats of World War II)
    HMC ML Q050 was the first of a series of wooden Canadian-built Fairmile B motor launch (ML) boats delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 18 November...
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    last-minute modifications. To assist in transporting the commandos, 12 Fairmile B Motor Launches (ML) were assigned from the 20th and 28th Motor Launch...
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  • Class Ship name Meaning History Fate Status Fairmile B motor launch (United Kingdom) INS HaPortzim (M-17) The Breachers Purchased from British mandate...
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    suburb. During WWII, the Green Point Naval Boatyard at Mortlake assembled Fairmile B motor launches. Until 1948, an electric tramway connected Mortlake south...
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    HMC ML Q057 (category Royal Canadian Navy Fairmile B motor launch boats of World War II)
    HMC ML Q057 was a wooden Canadian-built Fairmile B motor launch (ML) upgunned submarine chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 28 October...
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  • The Fairmile H Landing Craft were British landing craft of the Second World War. Initially designed for commando type raids from a base in Britain as a...
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    HMC ML Q055 (category Royal Canadian Navy Fairmile B motor launch boats of World War II)
    HMC ML Q055 was a wooden Canadian-built Fairmile B motor launch (ML) upgunned submarine chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 6 November...
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    HMC ML Q056 (category Royal Canadian Navy Fairmile B motor launch boats of World War II)
    HMC ML Q056 was a wooden Canadian-built Fairmile B motor launch (ML) upgunned submarine chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 23 November...
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    Royal Norwegian Navy Fairmile B motor launches off Dover circa 1940-1941....
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    HMC ML Q054 (category Royal Canadian Navy Fairmile B motor launch boats of World War II)
    HMC ML Q054 was a wooden Canadian-built Fairmile B motor launch (ML) upgunned submarine chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 17 October...
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    HMNZS Kahu (P3571) was a Fairmile B motor launch of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Originally commissioned on 20 December 1943, with the pendant number Q 411...
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    726 (Fairmile D type) MTB 727 (Fairmile D type) MTB 735 (Fairmile D type) MTB 736 (Fairmile D type) MTB 737 (Fairmile D type) MTB 743 (Fairmile D type)...
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    vessel/harbour craft Beaver (PTC 706) (1948–1956) – Fairmile-B motor launch Cougar III (PTC 704) (1956) – Fairmile-B class motor launch Plainsville (W01/YTS 587)...
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    A flotilla of 21 vessels—Campbeltown, 16 Fairmile B motor launches, one motor torpedo boat and a Fairmile C motor gun boat acting as the troops' headquarters—left...
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    for an additional, larger Ranger force of eight companies (Companies A and B of the 2nd Ranger Battalion and the entire 5th Ranger Battalion) to follow...
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  • following ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy: HMNZS Kahu (ML400), a Fairmile B motor launch, 1943–1965 HMNZS Kahu (A04), a Moa-class patrol boat used...
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    HMC ML Q051 (category Royal Canadian Navy Fairmile B motor launch boats of World War II)
    HMC ML Q051 was a wooden Canadian-built Fairmile B motor launch (M.L.) upgunned submarine chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 24 November...
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