HUNTING THE GERMAN SUBMARINES. British destroyers day ami night patrol the seas searching for enemy submarines. They carry depth charges—drums full of high explosives, which'will destroy a submarine completely if dropped within a few hundred feet, and disable it over a much greater distance. In this photograph the sailors are lowering the depth charge into position for discharging at the enemy when necessary
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 162, 20 May 1940, Page 7
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63HUNTING THE GERMAN SUBMARINES. British destroyers day ami night patrol the seas searching for enemy submarines. They carry depth charges—drums full of high explosives, which'will destroy a submarine completely if dropped within a few hundred feet, and disable it over a much greater distance. In this photograph the sailors are lowering the depth charge into position for discharging at the enemy when necessary Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 162, 20 May 1940, Page 7
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