Picture No | 10216652 |
Date | 1912 |
Description | Warship trailing a Fog Buoy, 1912. |
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Photograph of a British warship trailing a fog buoy. When a group of warships travelling line ahead entered fog they would stream fog buoys, which disturbed the water and made a flapping noise more easily discernible by the look-out on the following ship.
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Source | The Sphere. 1912. top page 211. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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