Submarine Mines
A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, any vessel. Naval mines can be used offensively, to hamper enemy shipping movements or lock vessels into a harbour; or defensively, to protect friendly vessels and create "safe" zones. Mines allow the minelaying force commander to concentrate warships or defensive assets in mine-free areas giving the adversary three choices: undertake an expensive and time-consuming minesweeping effort, accept the casualties of …
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BBL: Breakwater Books · 2006 English
For seventy-one years, iron ore was mined at Wabana, Bell Island: half the output was used in Canada; the other half was shipped around the world. When the mine shut …
with sketches showing the position of the submarine mines in 1951. Based on a map found in C. M. Anson …
UTP: University of Toronto Press · 2004 English
Benjamin Disraeli was perhaps the most colourful Prime Minister in British history. This seventh volume of the highly acclaimed Benjamin Disraeli Letters edition shows also that he was a dedicated, …
professors, Belfast; comments on Cornwall submarine mines (leave) 10 Jul attends cabinet meeting xxxiv … and means (committee); comments on Cornwall Submarine Mines Bill (committee) 19 Jul comments on withdrawal …
