Cruel Seas: MT Barchino explosive motorboat 15mm WW11 French Vehicles From February 1942

From February 1942

Dimensions of brick base are: 125mm x 82mm

well-built vessels that were seaworthy and useful ships

Models based in image for scale only

Ronald Franklin Seddon

Cruel Seas: MT Barchino explosive motorboat 15mm WW11 French Vehicles From February 1942Developed in the inter war years by the Royal Italian Navy, these explosive boats were developed for special operations and would inspire the German Linse program. They were designed to be launched from a mothership, making a silent approach while avoiding any harbour defences, before the pilot locked the rudder and rammed it against the side of an unsuspecting ship. The Barchini would first see action against the British fleet moored at Crete's Souda