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Danger At Sea
THE WAR moves to a grimmer stage with the indiscriminate
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MINESWEEPING
FFICIAL AD- COM- MIRALTY MUNIQUE 24-1-40: of the "The Secretary Admiralty regrets to an- nounce the loss of H.M. destroyer Exmouth by the
explosion of a German mine
The Navy's Most
Dangerous Job
ON the readiness of Shetlands to the Channel the
some thousands of submarines, dropped a deadly
not killed outright they may be horribly mutilated and die of wounds and exposure in a wintry sea, 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 fields a few hun-
or torpedo. It is feared that all the crew have been lost. The next of kin of
have been in- officers and men of the Royal trail; while big occan-going craft casualties 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."
neutral shipping on their lawful business. A naval officer looked over my to live that life, day in day out, of America, the South China last few days, in a part of the
Ceylon. close our eyes to that fact or to shoulder and read this message year in year out, depends your Sea, South Africa, Aden, India, Open sea used by our own and in my hand. "Well," he said, existence in time of war, for New Zealand, Australia and without them you would starve, attempt to minimise it in any "that's another of them."
or your Government would be way.
compelled to surrender on the
terms.
It would be foolish for us to
And it would be idle to deny that the magnetic mine intro
It is now a commonplace that
Their destruction is not only in a
matter of courage and endur- A sixteen-inch gun
ance, but of scientific calculation battleship is as much good as a penny whistle when it comes and precision. to cleaning the seas of mines. This is where the fishermen of
The most common method is-
How many more times enemy's
will my colleagues duces a weapon which it is and myself read such messages the Navy ultimately stands be. Britain came in literally to save shown in the accompanying il-
during the war? During the
and almost every kind of good od between two sweeping ships. difficult to completely combat, four years three months and tween this country and defeat, our bacon and bread and butter lustration: A sweep wire is pass- kept in the water at a predeter- 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
the 'merchantmen who bring our cessors printed an average of be kept open by the Fleet for islands depend.
In the beginning, this country mined depth by "kites" which one a week.
food to these shores we cannot had a handful of old gunboats weigh it down. Often the sweep and trawlers. In 1918 a fleet of wire has a serrated edge. This. cuts the cable of a mine moored It is not so well realised that 726 fully-equipped vessels was to the bed of the sea and brings sweeping a 1,000-mile channel without the ships which keep every day to give safe passage by gun or rifle fire.
as we have combated the U-Boat, This indiscriminate mining of FOR BOTH 8 MM AND shipping routes, which already has claimed its greatest successes
16 MM COMPLETE IN against neutral shipping, is of course absolutely opposed to international law.
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But it was always foolish to! expect that Nazi Germany would pay any respect to that—and few in Britain or France made the mistake of thinking that it would.
and Our
experts naval 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.
WIRK
A. Mine about to enter Sweep. Mine rinlag to surface where it will ha destroyed
ог
scalded hands and faces, severel
exist.
it to the surface to be destroyed.
open the oceans for them, the to the merchantmen.
Nothing can be seen-except men-of-war could not keep open When the terrible danger was the cold grey waste of the the way for the merchantmen fully realised fishing skippers waters. Unlike a submarine, a
crows volunteered to go about their business. and their
"
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THAT was probably how the Exmouth met her end on Tuesday. Frequently a minefield is only located when n ship is lost.
Without these sweepers of the from every port to do this work, mine cannot be located by arz sens the British Navy would be at first under the direction of apparatus. Blindly the sweepers caught and brought up or until alone.
the hull is impaled upon one 1. Mine mooring cable cut by Sweep, and in deadly peril of destruction trained naval men and then steam ahead until a mine is
every time it put out of its ports
In their ranks went some who of the leaden horns and the little' During that war the Germans and might very well be unable
had never previously set foot in vessel of probably not more than. laid 48,630 mines, and at one to put out at all.
a rowing boat, let alone a sea- 250 tona is blown to fragments- going craft-some, astonishing by an explosion which could: period one sweeper was lost for
ly enough, for the sake of destroy a Queen Mary or a Hood, every two mines swept up. Each time half the crew was killed
ON February 1, 1917, adventure some because, al drowned--not to mention
the Germans started though they refused to take life, they were willing to risk losing unrestricted submarine
their own to save others. Among or broken limbs, nerves shatter their ed by a bloody ordeal which campaign, attacking ships on these were the Quakers and those who survived it could not sight with torpedo and laying other Conscientious Objectors. escape to the end of their days. mines in thousands in the open
And this is the work they seas. In 1914-1915 568 British, willingly and even eagerly under-
Then into the sea of death sail? Allier or neutral merchantren took and which as you read this
In thousands of their auccessors the aweepermen, - knowing that
every moment may be their last... TWO hundred and four were sent to the bottom.
teen times such a February, 1017, 260 were sent are enduring now.
From the Admiralty may conto: communique was sent out by the down, in March 388 and in April
Every day a channel clear of Admiralty and behind the for- 430.
mines must be kept open round communiques announcing briefly mal phrases lay each time a
but in a few days the way is. story of the courage and endur-
On April 19, the worst day of the entire length of our coasts. the loss of one, or two, or three, anco of men which, could it have the worst month of the war, Every day now from unnamed safe again.
We do hot know how many- of the Navy against the sub- the heart of overy Englishman." Cloven British merchantmen and ports sail converted trawlers
But because of the accrocy
eight fighting craft were des- which a few weeks ago were en-
gaged in fishing. Epica 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: ship and suffering that may have All that they will ask is that told then. Because of the re- that month never returned. The Their war job is fantastically the peril and whatever the hard-
ticenco of those men to talk U-boat was bringing Britain to perilous.
to be endured to defeat them, attempt to hide from thom the about themselves it is even now the vorge of starvation.
There is not a second of any be assured that from the humble partly known. only
hour of any day cottages of the fisher folk of real facts of the situation, how- In a rare moment of frank. There was hardly a harbour, minute of any may not be more Britain will come nier to endure ness one of them once sold channel or headland round these than a hair's-breadth from being it until there la not, a mine left. yor serious
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 aro up with anything like It."
Against the submarine ve have so far been extremoly successful. This murder weapon of the sea in more difficult to [combat,
The British poople, who have been encouraged by the successes
marine menace, will not be cast down by any losses from minca.
there shall at no time be any
whother it bo-good or ill.
been told, "would have stirred
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