The Fairmile C motor gunboat MGB 314
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Class overview | |
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Name | Fairmile C motor gunboat |
Preceded by | Fairmile B motor launch |
Succeeded by | Fairmile D motor torpedo boat |
Completed | 24 |
Lost | 5 |
Retired | 19 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 72 tons |
Length | 110 ft (34 m) |
Beam | 17 ft 5 in (5.31 m) |
Draught | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
Propulsion | Three 850 hp (630 kW) supercharged Hall-Scott petrol engines |
Speed | 26.5 knots (49.1 km/h; 30.5 mph) |
Range | 500 nmi (930 km; 580 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) (Bunkerage: 1,800 gal + extra 2,600 gal) |
Complement | 2 officers + 14 ratings |
Armament |
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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 boats were ordered on 27 August 1940 from Fairmile Marine in kit form and were assembled at multiple boatbuilders' yards and completed in 1941; they were initially rated as Motor Launches (ML), but received the designation Motor Gun Boats (MGB) on 1 August 1941, being numbered MGB 312–335.