Kriegsmarine E-boat flotilla flights

Kriegsmarine E-boat flotilla flightsThe Schnellboat or E Boat as the British Admiralty called them, E for enemy, was a truly formidable beast, in many ways incomparable in detail to the other nations boats. In sheer size alone, the E boat was much, much bigger. Allied boats tended to be 70 80 feet in length, the E boat 115 feet long, and the laws of physics, though complex, favour a larger hull for speed over a shorter one. German engineering also gave them another advantage, as when

The Type N2 being characterised by the triple arrangement of locking room windows

The Flower-class corvette (also known as the Gladiolus class after the lead ship) was a British class ship used to escort Allied convoys and act as an anti-submarine vessel during the Battle of the Atlantic

Around 40 were built in 1942

It is a do or die force

are armed with deadly rip claws that can tear away the stone from a mine face

195mm long

They had a crew of 100

but with epaulettes

5 Krasz Assault Troopers with plasma carbines and X-slings

Most freighters were practically defenceless against attacking warships but the presence of an accompanying warship was enough to ward off most would-be attackers of convoys

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1/350th scale kit of a River Class Frigate