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unusual facts about minesweeper


Minesweeper

The first minesweepers date to that war and consisted of British rowboats trailing grapnels to snag the mines.


Augusto Vandor

He enlisted in the Argentine Navy in 1940, and later became an officer aboard the minesweeper ARA Comodoro Py.

Bermagui

MSA Bermagui, a non-commissioned auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy during the 1990s

HMAS Bermagui, a commissioned auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy during World War II

Francis Steinmetz

In December 1950 he commanded the minesweeper Boereo in Dutch New Guinea, before returning to the naval training centre at Voorschoten.

German submarine U-353

U-353 sailed from Kiel at 07:00 on 22 September 1942, accompanied by two other U-boats and for a short distance by two Sperrbrecher (lit. "Pathmaker", in English "Minesweeper").

German submarine U-541

She was then hunted for two days by four frigates, a minesweeper and aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), but escaped.

HMLA-167

HMLA-167 also escorted eleven "Earnest Will" oil tanker convoys as well as ten minesweeper transits during its deployment in the Persian Gulf.

HMS Calypso

The Calypso (ex-Royal Navy minesweeper HMS J-026), research ship of Jacques-Yves Cousteau

HMS Curlew

HMAS Curlew was a Ton-class minesweeper, launched in 1953 as HMS Montrose, renamed HMS Chediston in 1958 and then HMAS Curlew on her transfer to the Royal Australian Navy in 1962.

HNLMS O 13

On May 10, 1940, she sailed to England escorted by the minesweeper Jan van Gelder and arrived in Portsmouth the next day.

INS Malpe

INS Malpe an Indian Naval minesweeper, named after a port in Malabar coast Malpe.

INS Malvan

INS Malvan was an Indian Naval minesweeper, named after a port in Malabar coast Malvan.

INS Mangrol

INS Mangrol was an Indian Naval minesweeper, named after a port in the coast of Gujarat called Mangrol.

Japanese submarine I-12

I-12 was sunk by the US minesweeper Ardent and the USCG cutter Rockford on 13 November 1944, 10 days after the sinking of the John A. Johnson, near Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands.

Joseph E. Persico

Following graduation he joined the U.S. Navy where he served as a Lieutenant Junior Grade aboard a minesweeper and also worked at NATO Headquarters Naples, Italy.

Jürgen Rohwer

During World War II, between 1942-1945, he served on several German warships, e.g. the destroyer Z-24, the Sperrbrecher 104/Martha, and the minesweeper M-502.

KMines

KMines is a minesweeper game for KDE, originally created in 1996 by Nicolas Hadacek under the GPL.

P29

P29, a patrol boat of the Armed Forces of Malta formerly the East German minesweeper Boltenhagen, now an artificial dive site.

Philip Connolly

He had previously worked in the NZR Hillside Workshops, and in World War II served in the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Atlantic and Pacific, commanding minesweeper HMS Deodar and antisubmarine vessel HMNZS Moa.

Robert William Rankin

Rankin was promoted lieutenant commander in August 1937 and sent to Britain on exchange duty, he was posted to HMS Gleaner, a minesweeper and following courses at HMS Dryad, he was posted to the repair ship HMS Resource as first lieutenant.

SS Westfalen

SS Westfalen (1912) was built as the 170 ton minesweeper FM-29 in 1919, by Nobiskrug in Rendsburg, Germany.


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