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Show SWEEPING THE SEA FOR MINES- Most of the crews of the sweepers' are hardy seamen from these coasts Yesterday fishing boats brought ten I ! men ashore, four of w horn were Injured, In-jured, who had been a part Of tho cre of the former Grimsby trawler, the Sweeper. Four of her crew were lost when she went down, after bumping into a mine, and another one died of his injuries after landing The Sinking of this vesse was witnessed by three fishermen from a distance of 100 yards. Immediately after a ter-rlflc ter-rlflc explosion the vessel started to go down bj the bow and in ten minutes , she was at the bottom. Two boats were launched and all the crew who j were not killed by the explosion got ! off. Various other trawlers have been reported to have structc mines and been destroyed Floating mines can be seen from I the deck of a boat and are frequently ! destroyed by rifle fire. Submerged mines are a different proposition They are from eight to twenty feet belo tho surface, and attached to an anchor by a cable. They have to be located by trawling or sweeping that is, dragging cables through rhe water at the proper depth to engage the fastenings that connect the mines with tho anchors After a mine Is located in this way it has to he handled han-dled with care or it may explode prc-! prc-! maturely Sweeping for mines is cold, hard (work at this season of the year It calls for good seamanship and plenty 'of endurance, in addition to the courage cour-age to face annihilation at any mo-ment mo-ment The fishnmen of the East coast are the men who respond to this call from their country. Leslie's |