During World War II he flew 65 combat missions as a bomber pilot, the majority of which were in mine-laying operations.
Sometimes mines were attached directly to the nets, thus reducing submarine survival chances.
Indeed, he died in June 1940, with the entire crew of the submarine called "Morse", which exploded hitting a mine.
Naval mine, a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy ships or submarines
Exhibit themes include the environment of the ocean, torpedoes, naval mine warfare, the technology of submarines, and diving equipment.
The Pluto Plus is an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) designed for use in underwater mine identification and destruction by militaries.
After World War I, he served as United States naval representative at a conference which met at the British Admiralty to consider clearing the seas of mines after the war.
The luxury liner SS Crescent Star sinks in seven minutes after striking a rogue mine in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with her nearly all of the 1156 people on board.
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Ajonpää and Kallanpää were bought from Denmark during the Continuation War and were intended for clearing influence mines.
They are so called because their first job was clearing mines and wreckage from harbors after World War II.
She was sent to Casablanca, in French Morocco, when the war began to lay a minefield, but the order was cancelled a day later and she was ordered to disembark her naval mines.
By April 1945, nine different fields (Serial B1, part 1 to 4, Serial B2, part 1 to 4, and Serial B3, part 1), comprising 900 Mk XVII/XVII(8) mines were laid off Lizard Head.
U-547 was damaged by a mine on 13 August 1944 in the Gironde (where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge), near Pauillac in western France; she then retraced part of the route of her first patrol, arriving at Marviken in Kristiansand on 29 September and moving on to Flensburg on 4 October.
On the night of 7–8 May 1943, while on a troop transport run to Kolombangara, Oyashio struck mines when leaving Vila (Kolombangara).
He died on 16 November 1918 while commanding the scout cruiser Cesare Rossarol when she sank after hitting a mine near the city of Ližnjan, on the Istrian Peninsula.
Atheltemplar returned to Great Britain with Convoy HG 9 which left Port Said on 19 November 1939, but on the afternoon of 14 December 1939, she struck a mine laid by German destroyers off the Tyne Estuary.
The squadron used several versions, including Mark IC, IV, III and X. In 1941 while the unit was equipped with Wellingtons and flying from Hemswell on 'Gardening' (mining) operations, the squadron's Intelligence Officer was Michael Bentine, later to become well known as an entertainer.
One of the earliest printed references to these devices was made by Richard Feynman, who was told by a colleague at Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia that the cable-passing version of the device had been used during both world wars on German naval mine mooring cables, to prevent the mines from being caught by British cables swept along the sea bottom.
She was transferred to the Norwegian Government in 1942 and renamed Norhauk, serving until she struck a mine and sank in December 1943.
United States Navy SpecOp (based in Indian Head, Maryland) is a naval unit which trains and supports divers and develops dive equipment for neutralizing mines and removing submerged unexploded ordnance.
After boarding naval mines from a floating depot, the flotilla headed for Hel Peninsula, assisted by ORP Wicher and several smaller vessels (among them Łomidze's former ship Jaskółka).