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...
29 KB (2,234 words) - 18:20, 25 June 2024
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...
32 KB (1,291 words) - 00:08, 30 June 2024
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...
8 KB (667 words) - 11:59, 28 May 2024
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...
740 bytes (114 words) - 22:07, 7 February 2021
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...
43 KB (1,173 words) - 05:17, 25 July 2024
RML 497 (motor launch) (redirect from MV The Fairmile)
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...
16 KB (1,722 words) - 18:15, 15 February 2024
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...
9 KB (577 words) - 22:32, 6 November 2024
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...
41 KB (3,647 words) - 12:07, 28 May 2024
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...
7 KB (924 words) - 16:18, 26 October 2024
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...
8 KB (717 words) - 20:40, 13 May 2024
last-minute modifications. To assist in transporting the commandos, 12 Fairmile B Motor Launches (ML) were assigned from the 20th and 28th Motor Launch...
62 KB (7,583 words) - 19:18, 28 October 2024
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...
11 KB (938 words) - 04:26, 28 June 2024
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...
29 KB (3,065 words) - 01:00, 28 July 2024
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...
11 KB (917 words) - 04:07, 7 August 2024
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...
11 KB (895 words) - 04:04, 7 August 2024
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)...
41 KB (5,481 words) - 18:53, 15 November 2024
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...
10 KB (881 words) - 04:27, 28 June 2024
suburb. During WWII, the Green Point Naval Boatyard at Mortlake assembled Fairmile B motor launches. Until 1948, an electric tramway connected Mortlake south...
5 KB (438 words) - 18:10, 25 September 2024
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...
30 KB (124 words) - 21:29, 6 October 2024
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...
5 KB (325 words) - 23:02, 3 February 2023
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...
11 KB (875 words) - 04:03, 7 August 2024
Class Ship name Meaning History Fate Status Fairmile B motor launch (United Kingdom) INS HaPortzim (M-17) The Breachers Purchased from British mandate...
24 KB (524 words) - 22:19, 18 November 2024
Royal Norwegian Navy Fairmile B motor launches off Dover circa 1940-1941....
7 KB (418 words) - 09:38, 29 May 2024
HMC ML Q053 (category Royal Canadian Navy Fairmile B motor launch boats of World War II)
HMC ML Q053 was a wooden Fairmile B motor launch (ML) upgunned submarine chaser delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 17 November 1941. Originally...
12 KB (1,034 words) - 04:27, 28 June 2024
vessels to carry those names as they also perpetuate the names of Canadian Fairmile B motor launches used by the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve as training ships...
14 KB (1,242 words) - 15:37, 3 August 2024
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...
23 KB (2,228 words) - 21:34, 22 October 2024
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)...
43 KB (4,432 words) - 00:38, 26 November 2023
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...
27 KB (3,297 words) - 20:59, 22 September 2024
(+1942)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 24 June 2020. "HNMS B of the Royal Dutch Navy". Uboat. Retrieved 2 March 2013. "B-class Motor Launches". netherlandsnavy.nl. Retrieved...
250 KB (5,258 words) - 00:57, 13 November 2024
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...
11 KB (923 words) - 04:05, 7 August 2024