Fairmile C motor gun boat

	The Fairmile C motor gunboat MGB 314
Class overview
Name	Fairmile C motor gunboat
Preceded by	Fairmile B motor launch
Succeeded by	Fairmile D motor torpedo boat
Completed	24
Lost	5
Retired	19
General characteristics
Displacement	72 tons
Length	110 ft (34 m)
Beam	17 ft 5 in (5.31 m)
Draught	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Propulsion	Three 850 hp (630 kW) supercharged Hall-Scott petrol engines
Speed	26.5 knots (49.1 km/h; 30.5 mph)
Range	500 nmi (930 km; 580 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) (Bunkerage: 1,800 gal + extra 2,600 gal)
Complement	2 officers + 14 ratings
Armament	(As designed); 1 × QF 2-pounder (40mm) Mark IIC gun; 1 x Rolls-Royce QF 2-pounder Mark XIV gun ; 4 × .50 (12.7mm) Vickers machine guns (2 × 2); 4 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers G.O. machine guns (2 × 2); (Later); 2 × 2-pounder (1 x Mk. IIC, 1 x Mk.XIV); 2-4 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon (2 × 1/2 × 2); 1-2 × 20mm Oerlikon (1 × 1/1 × 2); 4 depth charges;

The Fairmile C motor gun boat was a type of motor gunboat designed by Norman Hart of Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy. 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.

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