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HMC ML Q056
History
HMC ML Q056Canada
Operator
  • Royal Canadian Navy
  • 71st M.L. Flotilla (1944)
Builder
  • Greavette Boats Ltd.
  • Gravenhurst, ON
Laid down24 March 1941
Launched10 November 1941
Acquired23 November 1941
Out of service14 June 1945
RenamedEsso Ayacucho
HomeportGaspé
Identification
  • CML 007
  • HMC ML Q056
FateBroken up in 1957
General characteristics
Class and typeFairmile B motor launch
Type
  • Upgunned sub chaser
  • Acoustic minesweeper
  • Rescue boat
Displacement79 long tons
Length112 ft (34 m)
Beam17 ft 0 in (5.18 m)
Draught4 ft 10 in (1.47 m)
PropulsionTwo 650 bhp (480 kW) Hall-Scott Defender petrol engines
Speed20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range1,500 mi (1,300 nmi; 2,400 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement2 officers and 14 non-commissioned
Crew16
Time to activate48 hours to reconfigure weapons
Sensors and
processing systems		ASDIC
Armament
  • Upgunned sub chaser
  • 1 x twin 20-mm Oerlikon
  • 1 x single 20-mm Oerlikon
  • 2 x twin 0.303-in Machineguns
  • 1 x 3-lb HA/LA gun
  • 12 depth charges
  • 1 x Holman projector
  • 1 x Y-gun (4 reloads)
  • Acoustic minesweeper
  • 1 x twin 20-mm Oerlikon
  • 1 x single 20-mm Oerlikon
  • 2 x twin 0.303-in Machineguns
  • 1 x 3-lb HA/LA gun
  • 14 depth charges
  • Rescue boat
  • 1 x single 20-mm Oerlikon
  • 2 x twin 0.303-in Machineguns
  • 1 x 2-lb gun
  • 6 depth charges
ArmourWheelhouse plated

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 1941.[1][2] Originally designed for the Royal Navy by W.J. Holt of the British Admiralty and built by British boatbuilder Fairmile Marine, during the Second World War eighty Fairmile B motor launches were built in Canada for service with the Coastal Forces of the RCN.[3]

  1. ^ "Harold A. Skaarup Web page". silverhawkauthor.com. Archived from the original on 2020-01-17. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  2. ^ "RCN ML Q056". www.forposterityssake.ca. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  3. ^ "WW2Ships.com: Fairmile Type B Motor Launch". www.ww2ships.com. Retrieved 2020-01-02.

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