MAGNETIC MINES
VALUE OF PROTECTIVE DEVICE
PROVED IN CASE OF NEUTRAL
SHIP.
VESSEL BLOWN UP ON CURRENT BEING TURNED OFF.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY. August 9.
The cfficeney of the method of dealing with magnetic mines known as Degaussing can only ordinarily be tested by negative results. As explained in London today, a ship passing safely over one of these "secret weapons." docs not "ring a bell.” There is, however, one positive ease on record. A neutral ship whose owners had taken the precaution to fix Degaussing apparatus safely accomplished her journey to a British port. but because the quays were full of loading and unloading vessels, the ship had to anchor outside. Her captain, being of an economical turn of mind, ordered the chief engineer to switch off the current circulating in the Degausser, because the voyage had ended and fhe ship was safe. The engineer obeyed the order, but immediately contact was broken the ship blew up. In this case it is clear that the Degausser was an effective prelection.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1940, Page 6
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