Fairmile C motor gun boat

An intermediate design, twenty-four boats were ordered on 27 August 1940 from Fairmile Marine in kit form and were assembled at multiple boatbuilders' yards and completed in 1941; they were initially rated as Motor Launches (ML), but received the designation Motor Gun Boats (MGB) on 1 August 1941, being numbered MGB 312–335.These were then changed to 'Q' pennant numbers in late 1941 after the boats were reclassified as MGBs (a prefix also used by numerous up-gunned Type 'B' MLs).The class was mainly involved in close escort work with east coast convoys, and some boats were engaged in clandestine operations.MGB 314 took part in Operation Chariot, the daring raid on the St Nazaire docks (the only facility on the axis-held Atlantic coast suitable to refit Bismarck-class battleships).Two survive to this day, one at Hayling Island and the other in Bembridge Harbour, Isle of Wight, although now sunk and due to be broken up 2018.
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