Show MINE SWEEPERS DO GREAT DAMAGE J I TO SUBS a si Humble Trawlers Form Effective Effective EFfective Ef Ef- Agency of Defense n. n A It D. D a uy y MD c r a. a LONDON LODONIa May Ia 18 When 18 When the tho stor story of oC the humble mine sweeper is full fully will be added told man many stirring pages to the history of or antisubmarine war war- warfare fare for this little craft cran II Is sharing the work worl of the dashing destroyer an and chaser in running down down U A Amine Amine mine sweeper Invariably in drops Its ac accustomed accustomed ac- ac business for the bigger game nn and many ninny an enemy submersible has been accounted for h by them According to official reports there are arc forty times more mine sweepers rs In commission today In the time service enice of the allies than in Tul July In 1314 R Recently a fleet o of six all trawlers sighted a n mine adrift The rough sea ea prevented ente the boats from Crom sinking the mine by gunfire darkness was coming I Ion on and there was a possibility of oC losing it it So the commander approached the I I mine if in small boat t and when within Il l a o n I n some sonic instance distance or of me the drifting arming menace I he took to the water and swam swain tho the rest of the wa way Attaching a line litH to the mine he returned to his boat hoat and towed it ashore where it was exploded by rifle fICle fire Often days clays elapse before a mine which has been discovered cred can be lle- lle de In a terrific bale with mountainous moun moun- seas running running- a u party of oC mine minesweepers minesweepers sweepers found a nest of eight mines I The boats were unable to use their guns ung on them and a as night came on I the Uie little vessels la lay to in imminent nt danger of oC being washed onto the engines en- en en engines I gines of death Next day da two of or the mines were sunk sun b by gunfire but one I of oC the sweepers was lost lost how how the re ref report re re- I f port does docs not state It was not until I the evening of the fourth Ila day that thelast the thelast thelast last of tho the mines s was exploded I The trawler Manx King hauled up a n amine nin mine mind in such a position that one horn of oC the mine came camo within a afew afew afew few inches of ot the boats boat's rail and an another another an- an other othel was almost touching the gear geal The Thc slightest roll of oC the vessel would have caused its destruction The Thc difficulty difficulty dif dif- I was met by lashing lashing- the mine to the sweeper so that It ft could not be he I bumped against tho the side and experts were summoned to remove remo the detonators detonators detonators deton deton- I from irom the tho dan dangerous erous prize |