Cruel Seas: Fairmile B Minesweeper mdf_bundle_15mm America was ready to put

America was ready to put into place a building program that dwarfed all the other navies combined and led to the naval dominance that she still enjoys today

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

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battalions had one or the other

Overall width 270mm

Cruel Seas: Fairmile B Minesweeper mdf_bundle_15mm America was ready to putThe 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.