Material and mission
A minesweeper works close to a threat whose triggering systems can depend on magnetic or acoustic signatures. A wooden hull was one part of a broader effort to reduce unwanted interaction with mines. It did not make the vessel invisible or remove every hazard.
The hull is only one decision
Sweeping gear, electrical systems, crew procedure and the surrounding force all mattered. Explaining the ship through one material alone produces a tidy story but a poor history. The useful question is how several compromises made the mission possible.
Context without borrowed prose
The former site linked this subject to a wider minesweeper tradition. This page rebuilds that context from official historical material rather than reproducing archived copy, keeping the old path while giving the reader a new evidence trail.