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unusual facts about Magnetic mine



Beatrice Helen Worsley

After graduation, she enlisted in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service and, after basic training, was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant and assigned to the shore–base HMCS Stadacona where she was engaged on research in Degaussing techniques, to protect ships from Magnetic mines.

Degaussing

The term was first used by (then) Cmdr Charles F. Goodeve, RCNVR, during World War II while trying to counter the German magnetic mines that were playing havoc with the British fleet.


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Channel Dash

Gneisenau hit one mine off Terschelling, but suffered little damage; the magnetic mine exploded some metres off the ship, making a small hole on the starboard side and temporarily knocking one of her turbines out of action.