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Surface Vessels => Mine Warfare => Topic started by: John Seal on 12 December 2024 08:49:49 am
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Hello, I am working on chapter about mines, minelayers and minesweepers/hunters for my website www.navtechlife.com
I have several photographs of trawler minesweepers with a boom fixed to port or starboard of the bow and pivoting off the ship's side. It is not the usual SA structure that goes down over the bow. Can anyone tell me what this boom is for - streaming a Oropesa sweep maybe. Thanks for your help !
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Perhaps the boom for deploying anti-mine paravanes.
See this film about the device : https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060023129
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Full details of paravanes can be found here -
https://archives.imeche.org/archive/institution-history/first-world-war/paravanes
- see p.05 - illustration of Paravane Type M bow protectors
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Hello, many thanks for your messages and it looks like you are right. Sorry to have taken time to come back to you but I had difficulty in logging in? Enjoy Christmas ! Kind regards, John
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Hello, I wonder if the structure on the foredeck of this German minesweeper is for streaming paravanes from the bow. Any ideas?
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Not an expert on German minesweeping gear - they did copy the paravane idea, so it may well be their version
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Thanks for your reply.