• Fairmile may refer to: Fairmile, Blandford Forum, a neighbourhood/hamlet Fairmile, Cobham, a neighbourhood/hamlet Fairmile, Devon, a large, remote hamlet...
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    The Fairmile A motor launch was a coastal motor launch designed by Norman Hart for the Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy in World War II. The prototype...
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    The Fairmile D motor torpedo boat was a type of British motor torpedo boat (MTB) and motor gunboat (MGB), conceived by entrepreneur Noel Macklin of Fairmile...
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    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...
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    Canadian Fairmile B was a motor launch built during the Second World War for the Royal Canadian Navy. They were adaptations of the British Fairmile B motor...
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    The Fairmile B motor launch (often abbreviated to 'ML') was a very numerous class of motor launch produced in kit form by British boatbuilder Fairmile Marine...
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    Fairmile is a hamlet in the English county of Devon. In the late 1990s, Fairmile became a focus of direct action protest activities, as squatters attempted...
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    303 machine gun mountings. The Fairmile D was a very large British MTB designed by Bill Holt and conceived by Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy. Nicknamed...
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    Diamond Jubilee, 60 oak trees were planted in the shape of a Victoria Cross near Fairmile, the long straight road to the northwest of the town. Two notable...
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    armed with a 3-pounder gun, towed paravanes to attack submarines and, later, depth charges. Additional Motor Launches of the Fairmile A, Fairmile B and other...
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    Fairmile Bottom is a 70.2-hectare (173-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Arundel in West Sussex. An area of 61.3 hectares...
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  • Fairmile Marine was a British boat building company founded in 1939 by the car manufacturer Noel Macklin. Macklin used the garage at his home at Cobham...
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    sweeps. From June 1941, the Fairmile Type 'C' MGB began to join Coastal Forces; this boat was based on the earlier Type 'A' Motor launch and was the first...
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  • Fairmile H Landing Craft were British landing craft of the Second World War. Initially designed for commando type raids from a base in Britain as a way...
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    designers Reid Railton and Noel Macklin set up a manufacturing facility, building Railton road cars at the Fairmile Works from 1933 to 1940. An example is displayed...
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    497) is a former Royal Navy Fairmile B motor launch from World War II. She was named Western Lady III on her entry to civilian service, as a passenger...
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    Christchurch (/ˈkraɪs(t)tʃɜːrtʃ/) is a town and civil parish on the south coast of Dorset, England. The parish had a population of 31,372 in 2021. It adjoins...
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    Coastal Forces concept by building and employing the British-designed Fairmile B motor launch for operations off the coast of Canada and in the Caribbean...
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    A merchant navy or merchant marine is the fleet of merchant vessels that are registered in a specific country. On merchant vessels, seafarers of various...
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    Fair Mile Hospital (aka Fairmile Hospital) was a Lunatic asylum built in 1870 in the village of Cholsey, 2 miles (3 kilometers) south of Wallingford and...
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    raiding Japanese-held coasts. A Fairmile school was established at HMAS Rushcutter on 1 June 1942. The first Australian Fairmile, ML 813, entered service at...
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  • Launch Fairmile A motor launch Fairmile B motor launch Harbour Defence Motor Launch Motor torpedo boats Vosper 73 ft motor torpedo boat Fairmile D motor...
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  • the Fairmile-support depot ships HMCS Preserver (AOR 510), a Protecteur-class replenishment oiler HMCS Preserver, formerly named HMCS Châteauguay, a planned...
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    a raiding vessel into something that could be produced natively without making demands on limited resources. Fairmile Marine had already designed a number...
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    John; Ross, Al (1990). Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Vol. 1, Fairmile designs and US submarine chasers. Conway Maritime Press. pp. 196–200....
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    from the French coast and remain out at sea during the raid. A motor gun boat (the Fairmile C type MGB 314) was the headquarters ship for the raid, with...
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    a marque of British automobiles made by Fairmile Engineering Company in Cobham, Surrey between 1933 and 1940. There was an attempt to revive it by a new...
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    twelve Class B Fairmiles and sixteen Harbour Defence Motor Launches (HDMLs) On 4 April 1941 the British War Cabinet approved a proposal for a striking force...
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  • HMCS Preserver (1941), leadship of the Fairmile-support depot ships USS Preserver (ARS-8), a U.S. navy ship Preserver (Elfquest), a race in the fantasy comic Elfquest...
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    726 (Fairmile D type) MTB 727 (Fairmile D type) MTB 735 (Fairmile D type) MTB 736 (Fairmile D type) MTB 737 (Fairmile D type) MTB 743 (Fairmile D type)...
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