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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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