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Originally Posted by Ping Panther
Is it true that minesweepers were also typically constructed with wooden hulls?
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Some are, some are not. All of the Navy's current MCM force are a combination wood/fiberglass construction. Steel hulled sweeps could not sweep for magnetic influence mines. All minesweepers are deliberately designed with as shallow a draft as they can get away with, so hitting one with a torp would be difficult.