Naval mine locations

[XabbaRus]

Anyone know of any sources that show where WWII naval mines were laid?

[Fish]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Anyone know of any sources that show where WWII naval mines were laid?

Looking for this?

http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3414.html

Mine fields aren't there, chains has broken, storms fishery.
Belgium and Dutch navy found (and destroyed) 95 mines and aircraft bombs in the North Sea last year only.

[Blacklight]

I'd imagine that there are still hundreds of those dangerous things still out there floating in or under the sea in those areas that have yet to be found. Makes me wonder if any have ever broken free from their anchors and if there are any out there just wandering the ocean currents just waiting for something to hit it.

[Linton]

I would be interested to knoww about the position of axis minefields in the central Mediterranean.

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

I'd imagine that there are still hundreds of those dangerous things still out there floating in or under the sea in those areas that have yet to be found. Makes me wonder if any have ever broken free from their anchors and if there are any out there just wandering the ocean currents just waiting for something to hit it.

Ohhh! Loads broke free! They exploded on the beaches not far from me when they
washed up. Almost every town here has a deactivated mine that washed ashore,
usualy converted into a charity box. Mostly 1st world war ones.
Plenty more mines where deployed without anchors.

I have no idea if it was used at all, but there was a self deactivating trigger invented
before the 1st world war. It used a chemical reaction to disarm the trigger after sevral
years in sea water or when the anchor broke.

[baggygreen]

Well,

doesnt GWX have minefields as accurately represented as possible??

[Stealth Hunter]

There are still hundreds of mines floating around in the ocean from World War I alone. World War II, well, nobody really knows. Could be hundreds, could be thousands. Good fact is most have been found... as far as we know...

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by baggygreen

doesnt GWX have minefields as accurately represented as possible??

Yes it does. However, it is only based on the publically available information, until now.

Very kindly, a user of GWX and researcher of U-Boat locations in & around the British Isles has given us access to the WWII Admiralty Charts showing Allied minefields in the North Sea & English Channel. We have also been supplied the German Minefield maps showing safe/secret passages through their fields.

I'm not sure of the legality of sharing these, so I won't.

Needless to say, if you want accurate locations on the Allied/Axis minefields from 1939 onwards around the British Isles, wait for GWX 2.1 then check out the campaign layers.

[Happy Times]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Anyone know of any sources that show where WWII naval mines were laid?

Everything on mine warfare in the Finnish Gulf from 1939-1945 and some extra.

http://users.tkk.fi/~jaromaa/Navygal...ines/mines.htm