Allied Warships

HMS ML 209 (ML 209)

Motor Launch of the Fairmile B class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMotor Launch
ClassFairmile B 
PennantML 209 
Built byJas Taylor (Chertsey, England, U.K.) 
Ordered8 Jan 1940 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned25 Aug 1941 
End service 
History

For disposal in November 1945

 

Commands listed for HMS ML 209 (ML 209)

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CommanderFromTo
1A.M.C. Scott, RNVR25 Mar 1943ca.late 43
2H.T. Mace, RNVRca.late 43mid 1944
3G. Peace, RNVRmid 19441 Dec 1944
4J.B. Leigh, RNVR1 Dec 1944mid 1945

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Notable events involving ML 209 include:


25 Mar 1943

Passage of floating dock AFD 24 from Trinidad to Freetown.

On 25 March 1943, the dock in tow of the tugs HMS Frisky and HMS Zwarte Zee departed Trinidad. Escort was provided by the sloop HMS Milford (Lt.Cdr. G. MacClelland, RN), corvettes HMS Tamarisk (Lt. S. Ayles, RNR), HMS Woodruff (A/Lt.Cdr. F.H. Gray, RNR) and the ASW trawlers HMS Morris Dance (T/Lt. S.A. MacKechnie, RNVR) and HMS Yestor (Lt. R.C. Holt, RNVR). A third tug was also present as stand by tug, this was HMS Oriana.

On 1 April 1943, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Alcantara (A/Capt.(retd.) J.D. Harvey, RN) and the corvette HMS Amaranthus (T/Lt. W.S. Thomson, RNR) departed Trinidad to overtake and join the 'convoy'. HMS Alcantara was to fuel the oil firing sloop and corvettes at sea during the passage to Freetown. The coal firing trawlers were to coal in Brazilian ports.

On 24 April 1943, the corvette HMS Snowdrop (Lt. P.A. Tinne, RNVR) and the motor launches HMS ML 296 (T/Lt. R.C. Breckenridge, RCNVR), HMS ML 289 (?), HMS ML 287 (T/Lt. J.B. Bramwell, RNVR), HMS ML 281 (T/Lt. P.S. Castle, RNVR), HMS ML 266 (T/Lt. D.R. Beverley, RCNVR) and HMS ML 209 (T/Lt. A.M.C. Scott, RNVR) departed freetown to make rendezvous with the convoy which did at 1130Z/26. ML 281 had however returned to Freetown on the 26th after having been detached due to a defective Asdic installation.

On 27 April 1943, the A/S yacht HMS Virginia (T/A/Lt.Cdr. J. Dobson, RNR) and corvettes HMS Armeria (Lt. M. Todd, RNR), HMS Cyclamen (Lt. A.G. Scott, RNR) and HMS Thyme (Lt. H. Roach, RNR) departed Freetown to join the convoy which they did early in the evening of the same day.

The dock and it's escorts arrived at Freetown on 28 April 1943.

12 May 1943
Le Centaure conducted A/S exercises off Freetown with HMS ML 209 (T/Lt. A.M.C. Scott, RNVR) and ML 272 (T/Lt. J.A. Buchanan, RCNVR). (1)

19 May 1943
Le Centaure conducted A/S exercises off Freetown with Dumont d'Urville, HMS ML 209 (T/Lt. A.M.C. Scott, RNVR), ML 272 (T/Lt. J.A. Buchanan, RCNVR), HMS ML 281 (T/Lt. P.S. Castle, RNVR) and HMS ML 296 (T/Lt. R.C. Breckenridge, RCNVR). (1)

Sources

  1. ADM 199/635

ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.


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