Fairmile Marine

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Fairmile Marine was a British boat building company founded in 1939 by the car manufacturer Noel Macklin.

Macklin used the garage at his home at Cobham Fairmile in Surrey for manufacturing assembly which is why the boats he designed came to be called Fairmiles.

As a former Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve officer he was inspired to turn his talents and his technical staff to producing boats after reading an article by Vice Admiral Usborne.

After his first designs were accepted and ordered by the Admiralty Macklin found he had insufficient capital. To solve the problem the Fairmile company became an agency of the Admiralty. As a result the company carried out business without turning a profit, the staff being in effect part of the civil service.

1 Boats designed
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Boats designed

Class	Type	Designation	Built	Number built	Penant numbers
Fairmile A	Motor Launch	ML	1940	12	ML 100 to ML 111
Fairmile B	Motor Launch Air Sea Rescue	ML ASR	1940-42 1940-45	616 668
Fairmile C	Motor Gun Boat	MGB	1940-41	24	MGB 312 - MGB 335
Fairmile D	Motor Gun Boat MGB / MTB Motor Torpedo Boat	MGB MGB / MTB MTB	1942-43 1942-43 1943-44	95 229 134
Fairmile F	Motor Torpedo Boat	MTB	1944	One (experimental)
Fairmile H	Landing Craft Infantry Landing Craft Support	LCI (S) LCS (L)		40 10	501-540 251-260

[edit] References

Lambert, John and Ross, Al . Allied Coastal Forces of World War Two, Volume I : Fairmile designs and US Submarine Chasers. 1990. ISBN 978-0851775197.