CANAL MINED
DESTROYERS AT PANAMA Rear Admiral Frank H. Sadler, Commandant of the Fifteenth Naval District, said that four destroyers newly assigned to the Panama Canal entrances were intended to keep shipping out of mined areas. This was the first direct official acknowledgment that newly mined areas exist, but the Admiral qualified it with the explanation that personnel was being trained in the laying and sweeping of mines. It was said that the destroyers were not replacements for ships being overhauled, but were temporarily detached from the Atlantic Squadron for their present assignment and would return to the squadron upon completion of “the job of seeing that ships entering this area with intent to transit the Canal are not subject to undue hazards.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21226, 24 September 1940, Page 7
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123CANAL MINED Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21226, 24 September 1940, Page 7
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