| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Motor Launch |
| Class | Fairmile B |
| Pennant | ML 174 |
| Built by | William Osborne Ltd. (Littlehampton, England, U.K.) |
| Ordered | 8 Jan 1940 |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | |
| Commissioned | Dec 1940 |
| End service | |
| History | For disposal in May 1946 |
Commands listed for HMS ML 174 (ML 174)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | R Mayhew, RNVR | 25 Dec 1941 | 15 Jan 1944 |
| 2 | D.J. Tucker, RNVR | 15 Jan 1944 | 15 Mar 1944 |
| 3 | J.M. Leslie, RNVR | 15 Mar 1944 | 27 May 1945 |
| 4 | I.G. McEwan, RNVR | 27 May 1945 | late 1945 |
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Notable events involving ML 174 include:
18 Jan 1944
HMS Unseen (Lt. M.L.C. Crawford, DSC and Bar, RN) departed Gibraltar for Portsmouth. She was escorted until 1330/20 by ML 174 (T/Lt. R. Mayhew, RNVR) and ML 176 (T/A/Lt.Cdr. G.O. Sparks, RCNVR).
For the daily positions of HMS Unseen during this passage see the map below.
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Sources
- ADM 199/1824
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.