Fairmile
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Fairmile can mean:
- Fairmile, Blandford Forum
- Fairmile, DevonFairmile, DevonFor the boat builder, see Fairmile MarineFairmile is a hamlet in the English county of Devon. It lies on the former A30 trunk road approximately west of Honiton, where this road crosses the Talaton to Ottery St Mary road, in the valley of the River Tale...
- Fairmile, Henley-on-Thames
- Fairmile MarineFairmile MarineFairmile 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 Fairmile in Surrey for manufacturing assembly which is why the boats he designed came to be called Fairmiles....
- a British boat builder- Fairmile A motor launchFairmile A motor launchThe Fairmile A motor launch was a type of Motor Launch designed by Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy.Shortly before the Second World War the British industrialist Noel Macklin submitted to the Admiralty an innovative plan for the series production of a motor launch...
- Fairmile B motor launchFairmile B motor launchThe Fairmile B motor launch was a type of Motor Launch built by Fairmile Marine during the Second World War for the Royal Navy for coastal operations.-Design:...
- Fairmile C motor gun boatFairmile C motor gun boatThe Fairmile C motor gun boat was a type of Motor Gun Boat designed by Norman Hart of Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy. An intermediate design, twenty-four boats were built in 1941 receiving the designations MGB 312 - 335.-Design:...
- Fairmile D motor torpedo boatFairmile D motor torpedo boatThe Fairmile D motor torpedo boat was a type of British Motor Torpedo Boat designed by Bill Holt and conceived by Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy....
- Fairmile H landing craftFairmile H landing craftThe 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 of probing enemy defenses and tying down additional troops, some were converted into fire support vessels.Two variants were developed:The...
- Fairmile A motor launch