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First Edition: Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in dust jacket.  Book and dust jacket are in very good condition, generally crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. The story of the British Royal Navy’s smaller ships and their important roles in both world wars. Historical photos. 8vo. 320 pp. Including index.

A motor launch (ML) is a small military vessel in Royal Navy service. It was designed for harbor defense and submarine chasing or for armed high-speed air-sea rescue. Some vessels for water police service are also known as motor launches.

My father G.A.F.Frost returning from a Norwegian Commando raid in which a number of Quislings were bagged for interrogation.

Although small by naval standards, it was larger than the preceding steam or diesel-engined harbor launches of 56ft and coastal motor boats of 40 and 55 ft length. The first motor launches entered service in the First World War. These were five hundred and eighty 80-foot-long (24 m) vessels built by the US Elco company for the Admiralty, receiving the numbers ML-1 to ML-580. They served with the Royal Navy between 1916 and the end of the war, defending the British coast from German submarines. Some of the earliest examples, including ML 1, also served in the Persian Gulf from June 1916. After the Armistice of 11 November 1918 a flotilla of 12 Royal Navy motor launches travelled down the Rhine performing duty as the Rhine Patrol Flotilla.