THE MENACE OF THE MINE.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 July 1918, Page 6

THE MENACE OF THE MINE.

Of all the ships in the navy, the destroyers are the heaviest sufferers from mines. This is to be expected, first, because they form the most numerous section of the fleet, and, secondly, because their duties carry them into the most dangerous areas by day and night in all weathers and at high speed. Since the Germans adapted their submarines to mine-laying, no more difficult problem has been set the navy for solution than that of dealing effectively with these deadly machines. Even to devise methods'll) meet the submarine itself cannot be more perplexing. The trouble is that, with submarine mine-layers, a field may no sooner be swept up than a fresh one can be laid in the same locality, and thus every now and again some vessels come to grief.