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Danger At Sea
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-STRUBE IN THE "DAILY EXPRESS
MINESWEEPING
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It would be foolish for us to
close our eyes to that fact or to attempt to minimise it in any
way.
And it would be idlo to deny that the magnetic mine intro- duces a weapon which it is difficult to completely combat, as we have combuted the U-Boat, This indiscriminate mining of shipping routes, which already has claimed its greatest successes against neutral shipping, is of course absolutely opposed to
international law.
But it was always foolish to expect that Nazi Germany would pay any respect to that-and few in Britain or Franco made the mistake of thinking that it
would.
Our naval experts and scientists have already found a counter to the magnetic mine,
But, just as in the last war, we must be prepared to face shipping losses until peace comes again.
Against the submarino We have ao far been extremely successful. This murder weapon of the sea is more difficult to combat
The British people, who have been encouraged by the successes of the Navy against the sub- marine menace, will not be cast down by any loasca from mines. All that they will ask is that thero shall at no time be any jattempt to hide from them the real facts of the situation, how- evor serious.
The Navy's Most
Dangerous Job
ON the readiness of Shetlands to the Channel the uomo thousands of submarines dropped a deadly
nót killed outright they may be horribly mutilated and die of wounds and exposure in a wintry sca, or suffocate in the exploded fumes of a mine, or drift for hours on a piece of wreckage suffering the torments of the damned from injuries or the freezing waters.
MINES are usually soWN
in flelds-a few hun-
or torpedo. It is feared that all the crew have been lost. The next of kin of casualties have been in- oficers and men of the Royal trail; while big ocean-going craft formed and a casualty list Navy, fishermen and volunteers laid fields in the White Sea, the dred at the entrance to some from various walks of life ashore Bay of Biscay and off the coasts channel or harbour or, as in the will be issued shortly."-
to live that life, day in day out, of America, the South China last few days, in a part of the neutral shipping on their lawful year in year out, depends your Sea, South Africa, Aden, India, open sen used by our own and existence in time of war, for New Zealand, Australia and businese,
Ceylon. without them you would sturve, or your Government would be compelled to surrender on the enemy's terms.-
A naval officer looked over my shoulder and read this message in my hand. "Well," I said, "that's another of them."
☆
"How many more times will my colleagues
Their destruction is not only
a matter of courage and endur- ance, but of scientific calculation.
The most common method is
A sixteen - inch gun in a battleship is as much good as a penny whistle when it comes to cleaning the seas of mines-and.precision. It is now a commonplace that This is where the fishermen of and myself read such messages the Navy ultimately stands be. Britain came in literally to save shown in the accompanylig il- during the war? During the four years three months and tween this country and defeat our bacon and bread and butter lustration: A sweep wire is pass- and almost every kind of good ed between two sweeping ships seven days of the last our prede- in war. For unless the seas can on which the people of these which steam abreast. This is cessors printed an average of be kept open by the Fleet for islands depend.
kept in the water at a predeter- one a week,
the merchantmen who bring our
mined depth by. "kites" which In the beginning, this country weigh it down. Often the sweep food to these shores we cannot had a handful of old gunboats wire has a serrated edge. This
"KITE WIRE
exist.
and trawlers. In 1918 a fleet of cuts the cable of a mine moored It is not go well realised that 726 fully-equipped vessels was to the bed of the sea and brings sweeping a 1,000-mile channel it to the surface to be destroyed without the ships which keep every day to give safe passage by gun or rifla fire. open the oceans for them, the to the merchantmen. men-of-war could not keep open
When the terrible danger was
Nothing can be seen-except
the way for the merchantmen fully realised fishing skippers the cold grey waste of the-
WITLE
to
A. Mine about to enter Sweep. 1. Mine muuring cable cut by Sweep, and Mine rising to surface where it will be destroyed
or
alone.
waters.
Unlike a submarine, a
go about their business. and their crews volunteered Without these sweepers of the from every port to do this work, mine cannot be located by an seas the British Navy would be at first under the direction of apparatus, Blindly the sweepers
mine is- steam ahead until a in deadly peril of destruction trained naval men and then caught and brought up or until every time it put out of its ports
the hull is impaled upon one During that war the Germans and might very well be unable
In their ranks went some who of the leaden horns and the little laid 43,636 mince, and at one to put out at all.
had never previously set foot in vessel of probably not more than period one sweeper was lost for
a rowing boat, let alone a sca- 250 tons is blown to fragments every two mines swept up. Each
going craft-some, astonishing- by an explosion which could. time half the crew was killed
ly enough, for the sake of destroy a Queen Mary or a Hood. drowned-not to mention ON February 1, 1917, adventuresome because, al- scalded hands and faces, Bovered
the Germans started though they refused to take life, or broken limbs, horves shatter- their unrestricted submarine they were willing to risk losing their own to save others. Among ed by a bloody ordeal which campaign, attacking ships on these were the Quakers and
was probably how the Exmouth met her those who survived it could not sight with torpedo and laying other Conscientious Objectors. end on Tuesday. Frequently escape to the end of their days. mines in thousands in the open
minefleld is only located when & And this is the work they ship is lost. seas. In 1914-1915 508 British, willingly and even eagerly under- Allier or neutral merchantmen took and which na you read this
Then into the sea of death spil. TWO hundred and four- were sent to the bottom. In thousands of their successors the sweepermen, knowing that
teen times such a February, 1917, 260 were sent are enduring row.
every moment may be their last. communique was sent out by the down, in March 338 and in April Admiralty and behind the for- 430.
Every day a channel clear of
From the Admiralty may conto.
mal phrases lay each time a
mines must be kept open round communiques announcing briefly story of the courage and endur- On April 19, the worst day of the entire length of our consts, the loss of one, or two, or three, but in a few days the way is ance of men which, could it have the worst month of the war, Every day now from unnamed safo again. been told,, "would have stirred
the heart of overy Englishman eleven British merchantmen and ports sail converted trawlers
THAT
We do not know how many But because of the secrecy eight fighting craft were des- which a few weeks ago were en-
gaged in fishing. Epics of the mines are being laid now or the. with which the Navy must work troyed. One out of every four hardihood of their crews in toll of life and material that will in war the story could not be ships that left these islands in peace-time have been written. be taken by them but whatever told then. Because of the re- that month never returned. The Their war job is fantastically the peril and whatever the hard- ticence of those men to talk U-boat was bringing Britain to perilous.
ship and suffering that may havo- about themselves it is oven now the verge of starvation,
to be endured to defeat them, only partly known.
There is not a second of any be assured that from the humble. In a rare moment of frank- There was hardly a harbour, minute of any hour of any day cottages of the fisher-folk of ness one of them once said channel or headland round these than a hair's-breadth from being it until there is not a mio loft. in which they may not be more Britain will come men to endure: We flourish best on the truth, "Minesweeping is a dog's life, coasts which was not sown with blown sky high and probably in the sea.
only no dog has ever had to put
mines at least once. From the never seen again. If they are up with anything like it.”
whether It bo good or Ill.
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