Allied Warships

HMS ML 847 (ML 847)

Motor Launch of the Fairmile B class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMotor Launch
ClassFairmile B 
PennantML 847 
Built byLouw & Halvorsen (Cape Town, South Africa) 
Ordered30 Aug 1942 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned7 Nov 1943 
End service 
History

For disposal in February 1946

 

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Notable events involving ML 847 include:


20 Aug 1944
Around 0730FG/20, the destroyer HMAS Norman (Cdr. H.J. Buchanan DSO, RAN) departed Trincomalee to make rendezvous with the escort carrier HMS Atheling (A/Cdr. H.L. Oliver, RN) and the motor launch HMS ML 847 (?) coming from Madras which they had departed the previous day.

Rendezvous was affected around 1200FG/20.

They arrived at Trincomalee around 1800FG/20. (1)

Sources

  1. Report of proceedings of HMAS Norman for August 1944

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