Friday, July 6, 2018

The Finnish minelayer Ruotsinsalmi and her crew as they lay contact mines in the gulf of Finland on May 18th of 1942.


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  1. Those things kept Taking Out Ships well into the 1960's, until they Rusted and Sank...

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    1. My old man was working a rig in the north Atlantic during the mid to late seventies. Had to get the British royal navy to deal with a WWII mine adrift in the area.

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  2. for the least amount of money and time and risk with the most persistence, damage caused and area denial. planted just far enough apart to prevent fratricide and at a depth just below low tide on the outside ring with floater on the inside will give many a ships captain pause to reflect on the virtues of conservative actions.

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