The 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 launch design incorporating slight modif
HMC ML Q050 was the first of a series of wooden Canadian-built Fairmile B delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) on 18 November 1941
Belgian excursion vessel Franlis III (Ex HMC ML Q118) in the port of Ostend (Belgium)
ML Q051
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A submarine chaser or subchaser is a type of small naval vessel that is specifically intended for anti-submarine warfare. They encompass designs that are now largely obsolete, but which played an impo
Canadian Fairmile B motor launch
…Navy (USN) as US coastal protection had been depleted by transferring ships to the RN for convoy work. The USN used the Canadian-built Fairmiles as submarine chasers giving them the hull codes SC-1466 to SC-1473. Fairmile Motor Launch at Juno Beach Centre "Canada In WWII" junobeach.org Archived 9 March 2014 at the…
USS PC-815, a US subchaser that served in World War II