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RE: U-647 - cause of loss
Posted by:
Roy Prince
()
Date: July 28, 2001 10:35PM
<HTML>Generally speaking moored mines were pushed aside by the bow wave and the cable securing it to the weight on the seabed allowed it to swing out and strike a vessel amidships. I don\'t recall any ship being sunk by a floating mine which had broken away from it\'s mooring. Damage to the bow was probably caused by something else. </HTML>
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U-647 - cause of loss | Jan-Olof | 07/28/2001 08:15PM |
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RE: U-647 - cause of loss | Roy Prince | 07/28/2001 10:35PM |
RE: U-647 - cause of loss | Parade | 07/29/2001 08:38AM |
RE: U-647 - cause of loss | axel | 07/30/2001 07:03PM |
RE: U-647 - cause of loss | J.T. McDaniel | 07/31/2001 01:12AM |
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RE: U-647 - cause of loss | Axel | 08/01/2001 06:28PM |
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