Top: Putting Orepesa floats overboard ready for day’s sweeping. These floats are let out 400 or 500 yards and abreast of ship on wire hawsers. Attached to wire hawsers are cutters which cut cable of mine and bring it to the surface. Bottom.: Action stations at forward gun of minesweeper when unidentified aircraft are sighted.
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Northern Advocate, 13 December 1939, Page 5
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55Top: Putting Orepesa floats overboard ready for day’s sweeping. These floats are let out 400 or 500 yards and abreast of ship on wire hawsers. Attached to wire hawsers are cutters which cut cable of mine and bring it to the surface. Bottom.: Action stations at forward gun of minesweeper when unidentified aircraft are sighted. Northern Advocate, 13 December 1939, Page 5
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