| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Motor Launch |
| Class | Fairmile B |
| Pennant | ML 281 |
| Built by | Brooke Marine Ltd. (Oulton Broad, England, U.K.) |
| Ordered | 21 May 1940 |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | |
| Commissioned | 19 Jul 1941 |
| End service | |
| History | For disposal in November 1945 |
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Notable events involving ML 281 include:
8 Nov 1942
HMS ML-281 picks up 59 survivors from the US merchant ship West Humhaw that was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat U-161 about 60 nautical miles south-west of Takoradi.
29 Nov 1942
HMS P 614 (Lt. H.W. Wilkinson, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Freetown together with HMS Tamarisk (Lt. S. Ayles, RNR), HMS ML 277 and HMS ML 281. (1)
16 Mar 1943
HMS P 615 (Lt. C.W.St.C. Lambert, DSC and Bar, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Freetown with HMS Bridgewater (Cdr.(Retd.) N.W.H. Weekes, OBE, RN) and HMS ML 281 (T/Lt. P.S. Castle, RNVR). (2)
Sources
- ADM 173/17528
- ADM 199/635
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.