IJN Escort Type Hei Minesweeper 15mm PW Vietnam Convoy Packs Ship data-cards for Vosper MTBs

Ship data-cards for Vosper MTBs

The Fairmile B class Motor Launch weighed in at 85 tonnes and 112 feet long

roof panel and chimney stacks

The time has come to unleash the U-Boot-Waffe

such was the critical nature of this mission

IJN Escort Type Hei Minesweeper 15mm PW Vietnam Convoy Packs Ship data-cards for Vosper MTBsIn an attempt to regain some measure of convoy protection, the IJN built over 170 Kaibkan (ocean defence ships). They came in four main classes: "Type A" Etorofu class and "Type B" Mikura class, these were taking too much time to build so by June 1943 the Navy ordered a simplified design. The result was the Ukuru class, and a scaled down model of the Mikura class, which became the "Type C" (Hei) and "Type D" escort classes. The Type C (Hei), like the