SECRET WEAPON
THE DEGAUSSING METHOD COUNTERACT MAGNETIC MINES NEUTRAL SHIP BLOWS UP (Official Wireless) (Received August 10, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 9 The efficiency 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” does not “ring a bell”. There is, however, one positive case on record. A neutral ship which had taken the precaution to fix the degaussing apparatus safely accomplished the 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 ended and the ship was safe. The engineer obeyed the otrder, but immediately contact was broken the ship blew up. In this case it is clear that the degausser was affective protection.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21188, 10 August 1940, Page 8
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166SECRET WEAPON Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21188, 10 August 1940, Page 8
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