British Naval Mine Fields - Effectiveness Against German Shipping

[Richard Stone]

The attached British Royal Navy article discusses the effectiveness of the British naval mine fields upon German naval and merchant ships. It includes the mine sweeping methods and losses the Kriegsmarine used and incurred while attempting to overcome these. The mine fields include the British defensive and offensive types, including those made by the RAF using air dropped mines.

The original report was printed in the British Royal Navy magazine ‘The Navy’, which distributed technical and tactical information to the British navy departments and personnel.

This copy of the article was printed in the November 1946 edition of the USA professional military reference magazine ‘Military Review’.

I posted this article in the site section 'WW2 in Western Europe Africa & the Atlantic’ several weeks ago. I’ve reposted it here to aid researchers of the British Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force and the Commonwealth forces.

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[EwenS]

Details of British WW2 minelaying operations by surface ships and submarines can be found here.
https://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Ops-Minelaying.htm