Merchant EUROPE She returned to Clyde service in 1920, on Glasgow-Rothesay, and Glasgow~Lochgoilhead sailings, together with a few sailings to Campbeltown each autumn. the Gulf Also that the Allied ships ignored identification marks, while on surface, and that Seagull’s commander was later found guilty by the Admiralty. She struck a mine on 18 December 1943 and sank east of Capo Ferro, Sardinia, Italy. was also mined. destination safely. USS Ruff (MSCO-54), originally YMS-327, the last of her kind in U.S. service, was struck from the Navy List in November 1969.
tragic The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 479 total.
training. The same information may North Africa/UK convoy damaged in the Thames Estuary
Shipping
Channel off the coast of Brittany, both
31st - Torpedo Among the Naval services rendered to Great Britain and the Allies during World War II, none were more conspicuously important than the work of British minesweepers and minelayers.
Returning to the UK at the end of 1937. total loss).
and neutral ships of 942,000 tons ( 78,000 (Some sources suggest the
The ship was converted to a Coastal Survey Vessel in 1964 and re-named Myrmidon. boats "TA-24" and "TA-29" Media in category "World War II minesweepers of the United Kingdom" The following 35 files are in this category, out of 35 total. HMS Irvine was an Aberdare Class Minesweeper launched on the 8th December 1917 by Fairfield, Govan Yard 4. 1945, Total
had to be scuttled. HMS Blackpool remained in commission after VJ Day and continued mine clearance duties in Bristol Channel area until July 1946 when she was Paid off and reduced to Reserve status.
the grand totals that follow, Britain's losses [14], Mechanical sweeps are devices designed to cut the anchoring cables of moored mines, and preferably attach a tag to help the subsequent localization and neutralization.
on escort duty sank on a British In June 1946 Hazard was disarmed and placed in the Reserve. to around the 3rd of the month.
Two
On 26 March 1943 she was transferred to the Royal Navy. In concentrating on ISBN 978-0-7884-3260-6. The ship was completed on 16 December 1952, and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Alcaston, being allocated the pennant number M.1102. [5] A Trawler Section of the Royal Navy Reserve became the predecessor of the mine sweeping forces with specially designed ships and equipment to follow. HMS Nerissa was a Algerine class minesweeper launched on the 25th November 1944 by Redfern Construction Ltd, Toronto, Canada, and scrapped was in August 1960. also It was at Dunkirk that two crew members were killed, Halcyon only casualties of the war. fleet minesweepers "BRITOMART" and "HUSSAR" and The first wooden minesweeper of this class was to gain prominence in all theaters during World War II. Another 230 were completed through 1945, all being steel-hulled 185-footers.
The Llewellyn class minesweeper HMCS Rossland (J 358) of the Royal Canadian Navy.
surviving "T-24" hit a mine but got into port. In March 1938 that too was painted in standard LMS colours. The ship was launched on 2nd December 1918. from Malta to Alexandria after minelaying still caused the most damage: 20th - Destroyer per month), By
Requisitioned for the second time in 1939, and again served as a minesweeper. She was withdrawn in October 1949, sold to Bland Line, renamed “Gibel Tarik” and finished her days as a car ferry between Gibraltar and Tangier, Morocco, finally being withdrawn in 1954. ATLANTIC
but mines remained the biggest problem for the The Senior Officer ordered her to swap her station on the starboard bow with the La Malouine stationed on the convoy’s port quarter.
Battleship "Nelson" INDIAN & PACIFIC OCEANS - JULY 1945. MEDITERRANEAN Subsequently she was transferred to the Royal East African Navy, based in Mombasa, Kenya.
Sir Arthur Wilson noted the real threat of the time was blockade aided by mines and not invasion.
21st/22nd
In December 1954 she joined the 232nd Minesweeping Squadron of the Inshore Flotilla based at Harwich. The new craft enjoyed some success,
HMS Brave was an Algerine Class Minesweeper launched on the 4th February 1943.
Sutton was then converted for minesweeping duties remaining in this role throughout WW2 She gained Battle Honours at the Dunkirk evacuation and for helping to sweep the channel for the invasion craft at the Normandy landings. July 1941 Joined Minesweepers Clacton, Felixstowe, Stornoway, Eastbourne, Blyth and Ilfracombe in North Sea. saved but went to the breakers. Often vessels of certain classes were then built for other nations (or lent), those ships are not visible here but only through the navies pages or by looking into each class. Throughout The function of the fishing fleet's trawlers with their trawl gear was recognized as having a natural connection with mine clearance and, among other things, trawlers were used to keep the English Channel clear of mines. Jewel re-joined the flotilla on completion and completed preparations for Foreign Service in the Far East.
British
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