Allied Warships

HMAS ML 812 (ML 812)

Motor Launch of the Fairmile B class

NavyThe Royal Australian Navy
TypeMotor Launch
ClassFairmile B 
PennantML 812 
Built byNorman Wright (Sydney, Australia) 
Ordered27 May 1942 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned4 Dec 1943 
End service 
History

Sold in 1949

 

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Notable events involving ML 812 include:


10 Oct 1944
HMS Storm (T/A/Lt.Cdr. E.P. Young, DSO, DSC, RNVR) departed Fremantle, Australia for her 8th war patrol (7th in the Far East and 1st in the South-West Pacific area). She was ordered to patrol off the Gulf of Boni, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies. She was escorted out by HMAS ML 812 (Lt. D.G. Phillips, RANR). (1)

20 Mar 1945
USS Blower (Cdr. J.H. Campbell, USN) ended her 1st war patrol at Fremantle, Australia. She was escorted in by HMAS ML 812 (Lt. D.G. Phillips, RANR). At Fremantle she was refitted by a relief crew of SubDiv 182 and USS Euryale.

Sources

  1. ADM 199/1870

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


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