PROTECTIVE GIRDLE
FITTED TO BRITISH VESSELS EFFECTIVE AGAINST MAGNETIC MINES. NO SHIP SO EQUIPPED LOST. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, March 8. The enterprise of American journalists in discovering that the Queen Elizabeth was fitted with a non-magnetic girdle resulted in the disclosure that all British metal-built vessels, including warships, merchantmen, trawlers and yachts are being provided with “DG equipment,” namely De-Gaussing apparatus, consisting of a wire encircling the bulwarks round the upper decks, electrically energised and projecting a current downward, which counteracts magnetic mines. The device is believed to be an hundred per cent efficient. None of the vessels so fitted in the past three months have been lost.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1940, Page 5
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115PROTECTIVE GIRDLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1940, Page 5
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