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Submarine Warfare of To-Day

Submarine Warfare of To-Day

Domville-Fife, Charles William

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150161094
ISBN13: 9781150161094
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...and its success was partly dependent upon the vigilance of the patrols employed to divert shipping from dangerous patches of sea. When a mine-field was discovered which interfered with the free movement of a large number of ships a big concentration of sweepers from all the adjacent bases was ordered by telegraph and wireless. The area was isolated by patrols and the mines swept up. In one field no less than 300-400 mines were known to have been laid. Finally a further exploratory sweep was made, and if nothing further was discovered the area was again opened to traffic, and the sweepers turned their attention either to routine duties or to the clearance of another field. The entrance to every important harbour was swept once or twice a day, and all convoys had sweepers ahead of them when they left or entered such confined waters. The seas adjacent to harbours and naval bases were searched at low water for mines which might be showing above the surface. Around the anchorage of the Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow a wide belt of sea was kept clear of mines so that at any moment the fleet could reach blue water without risk from these weapons. The same precautions were taken off the Firth of Forth for the benefit of the battle cruisers, and outside Harwich for Admiral Tyrwhitt's light forces. A passage known as the war channel--about which more will be said later--extending from the Downs to Newcastle, was swept daily by relays of sweepers operating from the antisubmarine bases along this 320 miles of coast-line. This buoyed and guarded channel formed a line of supply for the great fleets in the north. Each big fighting formation was provided with a special flotilla of fast fleet sweepers, which were capable of clearing the seas ahead of the battleships...

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