Operation SN
I'm on my eighth patrol in June 1940 and I was assigned to patrol grid AN55. Whilst doing this I was attacked by an aircraft in the westerly area of the grid and I quickly dived my boat. I thought I'd use the external camera to see my boat diving and to my horror I saw just on my starboard side a mine. Anyway this got me interested in where the Allies put mines around Great Britain during WWII. I found some info on Operation SN which basically involved the Royal Naval deploying mines in an attempt to prevent the enemy from breaking out into the Atlantic Ocean through the Orkney - Faeroes - Iceland gap and through the Denmark Straight from the north into areas where trans-Atlantic shipping could be attacked. I know that the English Channel is a no-go area, but I would be interested to learn if any forum members playing SHIII have been sunk in the North Sea or in any of the areas mentioned above by mines?
Nemo
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