MINES IN CLYDE
Three Undiscovered
LONDON, July 22. The bottom of the Firth of Clyde - over an area of 1000 square miles is being dragged by Royal Navy minesweepers in search of three German moored, magnetic mines known to have been laid by the German U-boat, 218 when she penetrated to the Clyde on April 13. three weeks before the surrender, writes a naval correspondent. Tliis is the culmination of one of the most intensive mine-sweeping searches of the war. So far it has lasted three months, and has occupied 2G minesweepers. The U-boat carried 15 mines, of which 12 have been accounted for. but the mvstcrv of the remaining three is still to be Solved.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23261, 24 July 1945, Page 5
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116MINES IN CLYDE Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23261, 24 July 1945, Page 5
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