Picture No | 12688897 |
Date | 1939 |
Description | Volunteer mine-sweepers in training, Sept 1939 |
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A scheme to train fisherman as volunteer mine-sweepers began in 1938 and was used to allow the navy to concentrate elswhere. This photograph shows the trainees pushing their parvane overboard which was used to cut the moorings of underwater mines.
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Source | Unattributed photographer in ‘The Sphere’, 30 September 1939, page 487 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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