mikemike -> RE: Japanese Hickory transport (8/11/2008 6:33:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Anthropoid That does sound like fun :) Until somebody barfs . . . One night I got to looking on wiki about minesweepers and was surprised to hear that the most advanced modern minesweepers have hulls made out of glass-reinforced plastic!? How many of the minesweeper ships in this game would have had wooden hulls? I think in the WW2 area warships with wooden hulls were generally about 150 ft or shorter, say a displacement of maximally 350 ts. I don't think there are any Allied MSW's of that size in the game (stock). As for the IJN, the Wa101 clas may have had a woden hull. Post WW2, most of the MSW's built were inshore types, like the US Bluebird class and its descendants. These were usually wooden-hulled. Later on, as you say, some countries switched to GFRP hulls, like the French Navy or the RN. The Soviet Navy used wooden hulls (for inshore MSW's), GFRP hulls (for remote-controlled MS drones) and aluminium hulls (for the bigger MSW's, like the Natya class). The newer German MSW's are built from non-magnetic steel; the yards had experience in handling the material, as all postwar German submarines have non-magnetic steel hulls (They were designed to operate in the Baltic, in as little as 70 feet of water. The Baltic is shallow and would, in case of war, have been teeming with hundreds of WarPac ASW assets, ships, aircraft, and helicopters, so a sub failing to register on MAD sensors would have an enhanced survivability).
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