Largest warship constructed from glass-reinforced plastic
- Who
- Hunt class minehunter
- What
- 750 tonne(s)/metric ton(s)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- When
- 1979
The Royal Navy’s Hunt-class ships are active minehunters with a secondary role as offshore patrol vessels. First commissioned in 1979, they measure 60 m long and displace 750 tonnes. Their hulls are made from glass-reinforced plastic, rather than metal, to allow for an extremely low magnetic signature, protecting them from mines as well as improving ability to target metallic hulls of other vessels. As well as the Royal Navy, the navies of Greece and Lithuania also use the Hunt-class minehunter.
Their minehunting sonar arrays are capable of spotting and classifying a football-sized object from 1 km away.