| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Motor Launch |
| Class | Fairmile B |
| Pennant | ML 186 |
| Built by | Brooke Marine Ltd. (Oulton Broad, England, U.K.) |
| Ordered | 8 Jan 1940 |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | |
| Commissioned | 28 Jan 1941 |
| End service | |
| History | Sold in March 1946 |
Commands listed for HMS ML 186 (ML 186)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | T/Lt. Frank Otto Stoe Man, RNVR | 12 Oct 1942 | Oct 1945 |
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Notable events involving ML 186 include:
23 Sep 1942
HMS P 51 (Lt. M.L.C. Crawford, DSC, RN) resumed her passage to Gibraltar. She was escorted out of Falmouth by HMS ML 186 and HMS ML 259. (1)
1 May 1944
HMS Seraph (Lt. T. Russell-Walling, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Plymouth with HMS ML 186 (T/Lt. F.O.S. Man, RNVR), HMS ML 189 (T/Lt. W.J. Court, RNVR), HMS ML 181 (T/Lt. H.T. Kemsley, RNVR) and HMS ML 481 (T/Lt. W.A.N. Fell-Smith, TRNVR). (2)
Sources
- ADM 199/1824
- ADM 173/18698
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.