The Fairmile A motor launch ML104 carrying depth charges as an A/S escort or sub-chaser in 1941 at Dover, England
Class overview
Name
Fairmile A motor launch
Succeeded by
Fairmile B motor launch
Planned
25
Completed
12, numbered from ML100 to ML111
Cancelled
13 (completed to Type B design instead)
Lost
4
Retired
8
General characteristics
Displacement
57 tons, not including armament and equipment
Length
110 ft (34 m)
Beam
17 ft 5 in (5.31 m)
Draught
4 ft 6 in (1.37 m) forward,
6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) aft
Propulsion
3 Hall-Scott Defender V12 petrol engines 600 hp
Speed
25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) at 2,200 rpm
Range
600 mi (520 nmi; 970 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement
16, including 2 officers
Sensors and processing systems
ASDIC
Armament
one QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss gun
one pair of 0.303 in. Lewis machine guns
12 depth charges
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 ML 100 was privately built by the British industrialist Noel Macklin, who placed an order for this craft on 27 July 1939 with Woodnut's boatyard at St Helens. The Admiralty placed an order for a series of 25 boats to this design on 22 September, including the prototype under construction. The twelve boats completed to this initial design were numbered ML 100 to ML 111, while the thirteen other boats ordered on 22 September were re-ordered to the Admiralty's own Fairmile B design.
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