Image Ref : JR 0035.tif

Minesweeper c1940

Work started in 1940 at Totnes. 23 wooden Minesweepers built and fitted out at Totnes, 16 x 105ft type, 7 x 125ft type. Also 400 x 64ft wooden barges erected from fabricated parts during 1945 and 902 steel "Braithwaite" cells used in construction of pontoons.