Motor Launch

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Motor Launch is a small military vessel of British design.

On of the most commonest was the "Fairmile B". These were designed by the Fairmile company but production of the individual components of the hull was contracted out to others the design being in various sections. These sections would be built at factories and then taken to various boatyards for assembly and fitting out. Eighty boats were built in Canadian yards for use as escort vessels.

The Fairmile B is a 111 foot (34 m) wooden hull design of about 130 tons displacment. Two petrol engines were the powerplant. Armament was a single three-pounder gun and a number of machine guns. A number served in the St Nazaire Raid

Post war they were often taken on as pleasure boats and a number of Fairmile Bs are on the National Register of Historic Vessels