MAGNETIC MINES
NEW NAZI MENACE OVERCOME. NAVY'S MINESWEEPING FORCES STRENGTHENED. Tn the middle of November. Germany began a campaign of minelaying in shipping channels in defiance of International Law. The campaign mH with some initial success, although the greater damage was inflicted upon neutral shipping. Commercial shipping traffic was held up for a few hours as a precautionary measure. Soon, however, the Admiralty had taken steps to meet this new menace and an undiminished number of ships belonging to every maritime nation in the world, except Germany, was again passing in and out of the Thames estuary every day. Ninety-nine per cent of this shipping voyaged safely. It. was the same at other east coast ports in the approaches to which Gorman mines wore laid.
There are still shipping casualties duo to mines, but it must be remembered that the counter-measures adopted to deal with magnetic mines could not be made immediately available on the grand scale, although 200 trawlers were at once taken over by the Admiralty to strengthen the Navy’s minesweeping forces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 6
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174MAGNETIC MINES Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 6
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