HMAS ''ML 827'' was a
Fairmile B Motor Launch
A Motor Launch (ML) is a small military vessel in Royal Navy service. It was designed for harbour defence and submarine chasing or for armed high-speed air-sea rescue. Some vessels for water police service are also known as motor launches.
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of the
Royal Australian Navy
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the principal naval force of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (CN) Vice Admiral Mark Hammond AM, RAN. CN is also jointly responsible to the Minister of ...
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Fate
While on patrol ''ML 827'' went aground in
Jacquinot Bay
Jacquinot Bay is a bay in East New Britain Province, south-eastern New Britain, Papua New Guinea, at . It is near the mountain where twenty-eight people died when a Royal Australian Air Force plane crashed in November 1945. To its west is the Gasm ...
,
New Britain
New Britain ( tpi, Niu Briten) is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from New Guinea by a northwest corner of the Solomon Sea (or with an island hop of Umboi the Dam ...
on 17 November 1944. She capsized and sank while under tow on 20 November 1944 off Cape Kawai, New Britain.
References
Further reading
* Evans, Peter (2002) ''Fairmile Ships of the Royal Australian Navy.'' Vol 1.
* Evans, Peter (2002) ''Fairmile Ships of the Royal Australian Navy.'' Vol 2.
* Stevens, D (2005) ''The Royal Australian Navy in World War II.'' (2nd edition)
Ships built in New South Wales
Patrol vessels of the Royal Australian Navy
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