| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Motor Launch |
| Class | Fairmile B |
| Pennant | ML 271 |
| Built by | Boat Construction Co. Ltd. (Falmouth, England, U.K.) |
| Ordered | 21 May 1940 |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | |
| Commissioned | 14 Jul 1941 |
| End service | 16 Aug 1944 |
| History | To France on 16 August 1944 |
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Notable events involving ML 271 include:
12 Aug 1942
Around 0800Z/12, HrMs O 24 (Lt. W.J. de Vries, RNN) departed Freetown for Simonstown. She is escorted out until 1040Z/12 by HMS ML 271. (1)
17 Nov 1942
HMS P 614 (Lt. H.W. Wilkinson, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Freetown together with HMS St. Zeno (T/Lt. J.K. Craig, RNVR), HMS Coventry City (T/Lt. J.C. Grose, RNR), another HMS trawler (unable to read the name in the log of HMS P 614) and HMS ML 271. (2)
Sources
- File 2.12.03.6440 (Dutch Archives, The Hague, Netherlands)
- ADM 173/17528
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.