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Added Main Page to Canadian Fairmile B Motor Launch

Created new page for the Canadian Fairmile. Added Main Page link under Commonwealth Fairmiles HamOnt (talk) 07:28, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"based on the lines of a destroyer"

Is this really true? What's the source for this - is it a primary source (for example, Holt's drawings)? The Type B Motor Launch had a length to beam ratio of about 1:6, not the 1:10 of a destroyer, and it was flush-decked with a noticeable camber on the main deck, whilst British destroyers had been of raised forecastle type since the River class nearly forty years earlier - and would continue to be until the advent of the Guided Missile Destroyer. So, what's the factual basis for this very bold statement? 2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:1932:BE89:78F2:E2D (talk) 12:54, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Armament of navigation launches

ML 303 is shown with a forward 3-pdr, amidships Oerlikon and a 40mm AA type aft. Article states that navigation launches (as 303 had been redesignated and outfitted for in June 1944) carried a 40mm Bofors in the aft position.

However, the photograph does not clearly support this statement. Looking closely, the gun mounting is of the same 'layered' cylindrical type as found on the Mk V 20mm and Mk XVI 2-pdr hydraulically powered mountings, the gun axis height is identical to that of the 2-pdr Mk XVI (overlaying photographs of mounting on Type Ds in late-war guise with same gun mounted aft matches up) and the proportional relationship of the 2-pdr receiver and barrel jacket / muzzle assembly likewise matches, whereas the Bofors shows different proportions.

In short, this boat seems to be carrying a pom-pom and not a Bofors gun, contrary to what the article says. 2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:F072:7BA7:2EB9:D1CB (talk) 12:46, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]