SCHEME THAT FAILED
(Received September 21, 8.55 p.m.) OTTAAA’A, September 21.
The Germans tried, but failed, to block Halifax harbour with mines last June. A Navy Department announcement disclosing this says that 60 mines w-ere laid in the ship channel, but were promptly discovered and a clear path was swept within 24 hours, enabling a convoy to depart, '['he whole minefield was cleared in three days. No lives were lost and only one small freighter was sunk. The mines, which are believed to have laid by a submarine, were of the moored magnetic type and were more powerful than any previously seen by veteran minesweepers here. The mines were moored to the ocean floor, but were designed to explode magnetically. The enemy made one fatal slip that gave the game away. He left one mine on the surface, where it was spotted, and a minesweeper fleet immediately moved in. The enemy had mined the approaches to Halifax harbour in an arc intended to close the port to all shipping.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 307, 22 September 1943, Page 7
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