Allied Warships

HMS ML 558 (ML 558)

Motor Launch of the Fairmile B class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMotor Launch
ClassFairmile B 
PennantML 558 
Built byItchenor Shipyard (Itchenor, England, U.K.) 
Ordered28 Nov 1941 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned12 Feb 1943 
Lost5 May 1945 
History

Mined and sunk in the Adriatic on 5 May 1945

 

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Notable events involving ML 558 include:


13 Jan 1944
HMS Uproar (Lt. L.E. Herrick, DSC, RN) and HMS Ultor (Lt. G.E. Hunt, DSC, RN) departed La Maddalena for Naples. They were escorted by HMS ML 121 (T/Lt. E.J. Bower, RNVR), HMS ML 134 (T/Lt. J.N. Barfield, SANF(V)) and HMS ML 558 (T/Lt. P.I. Fellows, RNVR). (1)

Sources

  1. ADM 173/19288

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


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