Cruel Seas: Fairmile B Minesweeper mdf_bundle_15mm but it is correspondingly less

but it is correspondingly less powerful that the larger ‘siege’ weapons

Overall width 270mm

Commanded by:

2x 7/228 Pair of wing walls

battalions had one or the other

Cruel Seas: Fairmile B Minesweeper mdf_bundle_15mm but it is correspondingly lessThe Fairmile B class Motor Launch weighed in at 85 tonnes and 112 feet long. Crewed by 16 men it could make in the region of 20 knots through its 1200 hp petrol engines. The coastal forces were able to convert the Fairmile B into quite a varied assortment of roles we see it here configured as a minesweeper. Vessels of this type saw action during the siege of Malta, using their shallow draught to avoid mines that would have scuppered larger trawlers.