Cruel Seas: Fairmile B Minesweeper 6mm Sci-Fi especially in attempts to create

especially in attempts to create an anti-tank weapon based around the spigot mortar concept: a barrel-less device that uses a steel rod – the spigot – to ignite a charge propelling a bomb into the air

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5” plastic resin hull

This pyrrhic victory meant that they were never again used en masse

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Cruel Seas: Fairmile B Minesweeper 6mm Sci-Fi especially in attempts to createThe 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.