FIRST
BRITISH ADMIRALTY ORDER
ML.1-50
series, ordered 9 April 1915 in USA through
Canadian Vickers as anti-submarine vessels, built
Elco, Bayonne, New Jersey, 34t/39grt (H - 25grt),
75ft, petrol engined, 19kts, initially 1-13pdr,
replaced with 1-3pdr in most plus depth charges, 8
crew, commissioned; 50 boats, 2 lost plus 1 after
Armistice:
ML.1-ML.4
(total 4), no other details
ML.5,
based at Newlyn as of
20.5.17; Prize Money awarded to Lieutenant E I Sycamore
RNVR, appointed to command on this date. See also ML 350
and 352 (with thanks
to David Frost, great-great grandson, 10.6.2014)
ML.6-ML.10
(total 5), no other details
ML.11,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.12-ML.15
(total 4), ML.12, ML.14 (and possibly ML13 and ML.15)
were attached to HMS Cormorant at Gibraltar in 1918.
(From the service record of Chief Motor Mechanic
Richard S Clark, MB.2320, RNVR, with thanks to Michael
Johnson, 20/6/14)
ML.16,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.17,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.18,
included in the War Loss Section in Jane’s Fighting
Ships, but lost after Armistice; 29 September 1919
presumably in North Sea area - ML.18, ML.62, ML.191 lost
on passage from Norway, no other details (J/Cn/D)
ML.19, 31
January 1916 in North Sea area - destroyed by fire at
Harwich (+J/C/Cn/D)
ML.20, no
other details
ML.21, no
other details
ML.22,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.23,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.24-ML.29
(total 6), no other details
ML.30,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.31-ML.37
(total 7), no other details
ML.38,
Conway lists her as transferred to French Navy, but this
appears to be a misprint for ML.380 (Cn)
ML.39, no
other details
ML.40, 18
May 1916 in eastern Mediterranean - destroyed by fire in
Suez Canal (+J/Cn/D)
ML.41-ML.50
(total 10), no other details
SECOND
BRITISH ADMIRALTY ORDER
ML.51-550
series, ordered 8 June 1915 in USA through
Canadian Vickers, built Elco, Bayonne, New Jersey,
last delivered 3 November 1916, 37t/46grt (H - 37grt),
86ft, petrol engined, 19kts, initially 1-13pdr,
replaced with 1-3pdr plus depth charges, 8 crew,
commissioned; 40 from ML.114-548 series transferred to
French Navy leaving 460 to RN, 20 lost plus 7 after
Armistice:
ML.51, no
other details
ML.52, 29
November 1917 in English Channel area - destroyed by
fire in Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight (+J/C/Cn/D)
ML.53-ML.54 (total
2),
no other details
ML.55, 28
January 1918 in Thames Estuary area - destroyed by fire
at yard of Messrs Wills and Packham, Sittingbourne, Kent
(+J/Cn/D)
ML.56-ML.59
(total 4), no other details
ML.60,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.61, no
other details
ML.62,
included in the War Loss Section in Jane’s Fighting
Ships, but lost after Armistice; 29 September 1919
presumably in North Sea area - ML.18, ML.62, ML.191 lost
on passage from Norway, no other details (J/Cn/D)
ML.63, no
other details
ML.64, 10
June 1918 in North Sea area - destroyed by fire in
Granton Harbour, Edinburgh (+J/Cn/D)
ML.65-ML.78
(total 14), no other details
ML.79,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.80, no
other details
ML.81,
Lt Hugh Hunter RNVR in command, served in North Sea,
also possibly English Channel; early 1917 in North Sea
area - damaged by a petrol fire at Aberdeen or possibly
Peterhead, E Scotland (Dr A T Hunter MD of Canada,
whose father was second in command)
ML.81
ML.82, no other
details
ML.83, British waters (Andy
Hunter)
ML.83 ML.84-ML.96
(total 13), no other details
ML.97, sold
in a damaged condition, not known when, where and how
damaged (Cn/D)
ML.98-ML.102
(total 5), no other details
ML.103,
battle honour - Belgian Coast 1914-18 (Cn/th)
ML.104, no
other details
ML.105,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Belgian Coast
1914-18, Zeebrugge (Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.106, Commanded
by Lieutenant-Commander Alfred Archie White RNVR, out
of Anglesey during World War 1. He and his wife
both died February 1919 during the influenza epidemic
and are buried in Southend, Essex, UK. (with
thanks to Michael Nancollas, his nephew, 31.7.14)
"My
aunt has sent me a photo of their family houseboat, the
ML 106, moored mainly on the Hamble, Bursledon mid 1920s
to probably 1939. My grandfather was an RAF
pilot (Harold Allan Hamersley - see Google) and
apparently they preferred to live on this
houseboat. I am trying to find out if there is a
record of the WW1 service of ML 106. My aunt says
it was very seaworthy and at the outbreak of war they
parted company with it, and she wondered if it went to
Dunkirk." (Post-war
history and image with thanks to Nickie Johnson
22.11.2011)
ML.106 as
houseboatML.107-109
(total 3), no other details
ML.110,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Belgian Coast
1914-18, Zeebrugge 4.1918, war loss; 23 April 1918 in
North Sea - lost in action during Raid on Zeebrugge
(Cn/D/H/J/dp/th)
ML.111-ML.113
(total 3), no other details
ML.114-ML.548 series - 40
boats in this series were transferred to France and
delivered 1916-17. They were numbered in the V for
Vedette V.1-V.40 series. The British part of Conway's
allocates them to a V.1-V.73 series, but V.41-73
covered three other classes of French ML's
ML.114, to
French Navy (Cn)
ML.115-ML.117,
3 of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.118-ML.120
(total 3), no other details
ML.121,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918, included in the War Loss Section in Jane’s
Fighting Ships, but lost after Armistice; 22 December
1918 in English Channel - lost by collision off Seine
Bank, France (J/Cn/D)
ML.122-ML.123
(total 2), no other details
ML.124-ML.125
(total 2), served in Baltic 1919, both towed out of
Biorko Sound by patrol boats P.40 and P.38 respectively,
on 15 December 1919 (Janet Lomas, 31.3.2013, Old
Weather editor).
ML.126, no
other details
ML.127, sold
in a damaged condition, not known when, where and how
damaged (Cn/D)
ML.128,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.129-ML.134
(total 6), no other details
ML.135,
commanding officer was Canadian Lt G L Cassady (sic),
awarded a DSC for his part in sinking a U-boat off
Dartmouth in the summer of 1918. U-boat was probably
UC.49, sunk in English Channel off Start Point, in
50.20N, 03.30E, on 8 August 1918, depth-charged by
destroyer HM Opossum, joined by a number of ML's (Andy
Hunter, Canada - see WW1Memoir-ML.htm;
also Kemp's "U-boats Destroyed")
ML.136-ML.148
(total 13), no other details
ML.149, 10
September 1916 in central Mediterranean - destroyed by
fire at Taranto, SE Italy (+J/Cn/D)
ML.150-ML.151
(total 2), no other details
ML.152, in
Conway’s as lost after the Armistice; 2 January 1920 in
Baltic - grounded on southern Oland island, Sweden
(Cn/D)
ML.153-ML.190
(total 38), no other details
ML.191,
included in the War Loss Section in Jane’s Fighting
Ships, but lost after Armistice; 29 September 1919
presumably in North Sea area - ML.18, ML.62, ML.191 lost
on passage from Norway, no other details (J/Cn/D) (for
possible photograph - see WW1Memoir-ML.htm)
ML.192-ML.195
(total 4), no other details
ML.196, in
Conway’s as lost after the Armistice, caught fire and
sank, no other details (Cn/D). Believe commanded by
Lieutenant S F Strang, entered Turkish harbour of
Sivriji at night to search for possible damaged
U-boat ("The
Motor Launch Patrol" by Gordon S Maxwell)
ML.197, 31
January 1917 in St George’s Channel - wrecked near
Ballincourty/Ballinacourty Lighthouse, Co Waterford on
SE Ireland coast (+J/Cn/D)
ML.198-ML.205
(total 8), no other details
ML.206
- the second British vessel to enter Tyre after ML.248,
during the Palestine campaign ("The
Motor Launch Patrol" by Gordon S Maxwell)
ML.207-ML.210
(total 4), no other details
ML.211,
commanded by Canadian Lt John Hunter RNVR from 8 June
1917 until 9 January 1919, British waters (Andy
Hunter)
ML.211
ML.212-ML.222
(total 11), no other details
ML.223,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.224-228
(total 5), no other details
ML.229,
motor launch, US Elco-built; sold in a damaged
condition, not known when, where and how damaged (Cn/D)
BUT (source?? - ML.229, one of 11 British ML’s on the
Rhine. Almost destroyed by petrol explosion and fire in
1919. Probably not repaired)
ML.230, ML’s
230, 253, 255 being transported as deck cargo - normally
4 ML’s per ship - aboard collier INVERBERVIE 4,309grt,
sailing Cardiff & Messina for Taranto with cargo of
coal; 14 September 1916 in central Mediterranean - lost
when INVERVERBIE (H/L/D - also spelt INVERBERVIE)
torpedoed without warning by Austro-Hungarian submarine
U.IV (U.4) and sunk in Gulf of Squillace, 17 miles S by
W from Cape Rizzuto, Italy (te - in 38.55N, 16.15E; L -
15 miles SW of Cape Rizzuto) (Cn/D/H/J/L/te)
ML.231-ML.238
(total 8), no other details
ML.239,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Belgian Coast
1914-18, Zeebrugge 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.240, no
other details
ML.241,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.242-ML.246
(total 5), no other details
ML.247, 29
September 1918 in Atlantic off SW England - one of four
ML’s which entered St Ives Bay for shelter during strong
southerly gale, wind veered and "increased to hurricane
force", threatening to blow them ashore. Two boats
started engines and worked into deeper water, the local
lifeboat went to the aid of the other two, one of which
then managed to get started and entered St Ives Harbour,
the other developed engine trouble one mile off Clodgy
Point and drifted towards the rocks. By the time the
lifeboat had been relaunched and reached ML.247, she had
struck the rocks and blown up on Oar Rock, west of
Clodgy Point, St. Ives (WI - in 50.13.10N, 05.29.42W);
all but one crew lost in the explosion or probably
drowned, one man washed ashore and saved by people on
the beach. A further two hour search only revealed
wreckage (+J/Cn/W/D)
ML.248, "the
first British vessel to enter Tyre," during the
Palestine campaign ("The
Motor Launch Patrol" by Gordon S Maxwell)
ML.249,
served in Dover Command (Cn/dp)
ML.250-ML.251
(total 2), no other details
ML.252,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Belgian Coast
1914-18, Zeebrugge 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.253, ML’s
230, 253, 255 being transported as deck cargo - normally
4 ML’s per ship - aboard collier INVERBERVIE 4,309grt,
sailing Cardiff & Messina for Taranto with cargo of
coal; 14 September 1916 in central Mediterranean - lost
with INVERVERBIE (H/L/D - also spelt INVERBERVIE)
torpedoed without warning by Austro-Hungarian submarine
U.IV (U.4) and sunk in Gulf of Squillace, 17 miles S by
W from Cape Rizzuto, Italy (te - in 38.55N, 16.15E; L -
15 miles SW of Cape Rizzuto) (Cn/D/H/J/L/te)
ML.254,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918, Ostend 5.1918, war loss; 10 May 1918 in
North Sea - sunk to avoid capture during Raid on Ostend.
VC-boat - Lt Geoffrey Drummond RNVR (Cn/D/H/J/dp/th)
ML.255, ML’s
230, 253, 255 being transported as deck cargo - normally
4 ML’s per ship - aboard collier INVERBERVIE 4,309grt,
sailing Cardiff & Messina for Taranto with cargo of
coal; 14 September 1916 in central Mediterranean - lost
with INVERVERBIE (H/L/D - also spelt INVERBERVIE)
torpedoed without warning by Austro-Hungarian submarine
U.IV (U.4) and sunk in Gulf of Squillace, 17 miles S by
W from Cape Rizzuto, Italy (te - in 38.55N, 16.15E; L -
15 miles SW of Cape Rizzuto) (Cn/D/H/J/L/te)
ML.256-ML.257
(total 2), no other details
ML.258,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.259-ML.261
(total 3), no other details
ML.262,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.263-271
(total 9), no other details
ML.272,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Belgian Coast
1914-18, Zeebrugge 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.273, no
other details
ML.274,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.275, no
other details
ML.276,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Belgian Coast
1914-18, Zeebrugge (Ostend) 4.1918, Ostend 5.1918,
VC-boat - Lt Roland Bourke RNVR (3
battle honours + VC)
(Cn/dp/th)
ML.277, no
other details
ML.278,
served in Dover Command, war loss; 15 January 1918 in
Strait of Dover - wrecked on Dunkirk Pier (Cn/D/H/J/dp)
ML.279,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Belgian Coast
1914-18, Zeebrugge (Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.280,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Belgian Coast
1914-18, Zeebrugge 4.1918 (Cn/dp)
ML.281, no
other details
ML.282,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Belgian Coast
1914-18, Zeebrugge 4.1918, VC-boat - Lt Percy Dean RNVR
(Cn/dp/th)
ML.283,
served in Dover Command, battle honours - Belgian Coast
1914-18, Zeebrugge (Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.284, no
other details
ML.285, British waters (Andy
Hunter)
ML.285
ML.286-ML.288 (total 3), no other details
ML.289,
Albert Medal (George Cross)-boat - Deckhand Stanners RNR
(Cn/dx)
ML.290-ML.298
(total 9), no other details
ML.299,
15.10.17 - reported by HMT Saxon, with ML.302 and ML.304
west of Caldey Island, Bristol Channel on hydrophone
practice; 19.12.17 and 20.12.17 - reported by HMS Saxon
in Swansea area (Log
books, HMT Saxon)
ML.300,
19.10.17 - reported by HMT Saxon anchored in Mumbles
Roads, Swansea (Log
books, HMT Saxon)
ML.301,
no other details
ML.302,
15.10.17 - reported by HMT Saxon, with ML.299 and ML.304
west of Caldey Island, Bristol channel on hydrophone
practice (Log books,
HMT Saxon)
ML.303, no
other details
ML.304,
15.10.17 - reported by HMT Saxon, with ML.299 and ML.302
west of Caldey Island, Bristol channel on hydrophone
practice; 29.9.17-16.11.17 - reported four times in this
period in Cardiff-Swansea-Ilfracombe area by HMT Saxon (Log
books, HMT Saxon)
ML.305 - "Based
at Leith, patrolled Islands & Scapa Flow.
Would "put-up" on Isle of May. Able Seaman (or he may
have been Coxswain) Herbert Stapleton mentioned in
dispatches after raising the alarm when HM Queen
Elizabeth (Admiral Beatty’s Flag Ship) caught fire." (with
thanks to Brenda Duggan, grand-daughter of Herbert
Stapleton)
ML.306-ML.307
(total 2), no other details
ML.308,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.309-ML.313
(total 5), no other details
ML.314,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th).
Commanded by Lieutenant Gordon S Maxwell RNVR from c
August 1916, sailed Portsmouth to Great Yarmouth for
North Sea duties, then to Dover Patrol and based at
Dunkirk. Paid off May 1919 and joined 200 other M.L.s
lying up in the Hamble River ("The
Motor Launch Patrol" by Gordon S Maxwell)
ML.315-ML.344
(total 30), no other details
ML.345,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.346-ML.349
(total 4), no other details
ML.350,
based at Newlyn as of
21.5.17; Prize Money awarded to Lieutenant E I Sycamore
RNVR, appointed to command on this date. See also ML.5
and 352 (with thanks
to David Frost, great-great grandson, 10.6.2014)
ML.351, no
other details
ML.352, based
at Newlyn as of
20.9.17; Prize Money awarded to Lieutenant E I Sycamore
RNVR, appointed to command on this date. See also ML.5
and 350 (with thanks
to David Frost, great-great grandson, 10.6.2014)
ML.352-ML.355
(total 4), no other details
ML.356,
served in Dover Command, war loss; 11 April 1918 in
Strait of Dover - sunk after collision off Dover, Kent.
Albert Medal (George Cross)-boat - Lt A G Bagot RNVR
(Cn/D/H/J/dp/th)
ML.357-ML.368
(total 12), no other details
ML.369,
British waters (Andy
Hunter)
ML.369ML.370-ML.379
(total 10), no other details
ML.380, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (believed
misprinted as ML.38 in Conway) (Cn)
ML.381-389
(total 9), no other details
ML.390, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.391, no
other details
ML.392, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.393, no
other details
ML.394,
possibly served in Dover Command before transfer as one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn/dp)
ML.395, no
other details
ML.396, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.397,
probably served in Dover Command, battle honour -
Zeebrugge 4.1918 (Cn/th)
ML.398-ML.399
(total 2), no other details
ML.400, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.401, no
other details
ML.402, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.403, war
loss; 22 August 1918 in North Sea area - salvaging a
German torpedo and blown up in Runswick Bay, near
Whitby, Yorkshire, NE England (Cn/D/H/J)
ML.404, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.405-412
(total 8), no other details
ML.413, 21
April 1918 in Strait of Gibraltar - sank German UB.71
with depth charges
ML.414-415
(total 2), no other details
ML.416,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.417, no
other details
ML.418,
identified as at Gallipoli as of May 1918 (Donald
Carmichael)
ML.419, no
other details
ML.420,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.421, war
loss; 6 April 1918 - wrecked in Seaford Bay, presumably
Sussex, in English Channel (D - collision off Whitby, in
the North Sea) (+J/Cn/D)
ML.422,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.423, no
other details
ML.424,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918, war loss; 23 April 1918 in North Sea - lost in
action during Raid on Zeebrugge (Cn/D/H/J/dp/th)
ML.425-428
(total 4), no other details
ML.429,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.430, no
other details
ML.431, war
loss; 22 April 1917 in English Channel area - destroyed
by accidental fire at Poole, Dorset (W - described as a
'B' Class motor launch, in Poole Harbour, around 50.42N,
02W) (Cn/D/H/J/W)
ML.432-433
(total 2), no other details
ML.434, in
Conway’s as lost after the Armistice, caught fire on the
Danube river, no other details (Cn/D)
ML.435-441
(total 7), no other details
ML.442, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.443, no
other details
ML.444, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.445, no
other details
ML.446, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.447, no
other details
ML.448,
served in Dover Command, probably before transfer as one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn/dp)
ML.449-ML.454,
6 of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.455, no
other details
ML.456, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.457, no
other details
ML.458-ML.460,
3 of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.461, no
other details
ML.462, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.463, no
other details
ML.464, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.465, no
other details
ML.466,
identified as at Gallipoli as of May 1918 (Donald
Carmichael)
ML.467-ML.468
(total 2), no other details
ML.469-ML.472,
4 of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.473, no
other details
ML.474, war
loss; 23 July 1917 in Aegean Sea - hit by Turkish shell
and destroyed by fire near Chios island, off W Turkish
coast (Cn/D/H/J)
ML.475-ML.481
(total 7), no other details
ML.482
ML.482ML.483-ML.488
(total 6), no other details
ML.489, one
of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series(Cn)
ML.490, no
other details
ML.491-ML.493,
3 of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.494-ML.510 (total
17),
no other details
ML.511,
served out of Portsmouth, commanded by Irish yachtsman
Conor O'Brien (Jeffrey
Charles referencing PRO archives)
ML.512,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.513,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.514-520
(total 7), no other details
ML.521, in
Conway’s as lost after the Armistice, caught fire and
sank at Portsmouth, date not known (Cn/D)
ML.522-524
(total 3), no other details
ML.525,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.526,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.527-530
(total 4), no other details
ML.531,
commanded by Canadian Lt Russell Odell RNVR,
British waters (Andy
Hunter)
ML.531ML.532,
probably served in Dover Command, battle honours -
Belgian Coast 1914-18, Zeebrugge (Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/th)
ML.533,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.534, war
loss;13 April 1917 in central Mediterranean - destroyed
by fire at Taranto, SE Italy (Cn/D/H/J)
ML.535-537
(total 3), no other details
ML.538,
served in Dover Command (Cn/dp)
ML.539, no
other details
ML.540, ML’s
540, 541 being transported as deck cargo - normally 4
ML’s per ship - aboard cargo steamship HUNSTRICK
8151grt, sailing London for Salonica, also with
government stores & troops; 8 June 1917 in Strait of
Gibraltar - torpedoed by submarine and sunk 80 miles WNW
of Cape Spartel, N tip of Morocco (L - 53 miles NW of)
(Cn/D/H/J/L)
ML.541, ML’s
540, 541 being transported as deck cargo - normally 4
ML’s per ship - aboard cargo steamship HUNSTRICK
8151grt, sailing London for Salonica, also with
government stores & troops; 8 June 1917 in Strait of
Gibraltar - torpedoed by submarine and sunk 80 miles WNW
of Cape Spartel, N tip of Morocco (L - 53 miles NW of)
(Cn/D/H/J/L)
ML.542, no
other details
ML.543-ML.544,
2 of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.545-546 (total
2),
no other details
ML.547-548,
2 of 40 to France, renumbered in V.1-V.40 series (Cn)
ML.549,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.550, no
other details
FINAL
ORDER
ML.551-580,
final 30 ordered July 1917, launched in
1918, 37t, 80ftx12ft, 19kts, 1-13pdr, replaced by
1-3pdr in most, 8 crew; 30 boats, 1 lost and 1 after
Armistice:
ML.551,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.552,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.553-554
(total 2), no other details
ML.555,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.556,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
(Ostend) 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.557,
probably served in Dover Command, battle honour -
Zeebrugge 4.1918 (Cn/th)
ML.558,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.559, no
other details
ML.560,
served in Dover Command, Zeebrugge 4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.561,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918, war loss; 21 October 1918 in North Sea - mined,
sank off Ostend (Cn/D/H/J/dp/th)
ML.562,
served in Dover Command, battle honour - Zeebrugge
4.1918 (Cn/dp/th)
ML.563-565
(total 3), no other details
ML.566,
included in the War Loss Section in Jane’s Fighting
Ships, but lost after Armistice; 22 December 1918 in
English Channel - swamped off Cape Barfleur, France
(J/Cn/D/J)
ML.567-580
(total 14), no other details
