minesweeper

HALCYON class minesweeper HMS SPEEDWELL built 1935. On 17 January 1942 SPEEDWELL stood by ss HARMATRIS after she had been torpedoed during Arctic Convoy PQ8 and assisted in towing her into comparative safety in Murmansk.

HALCYON class minesweeper HMS SPEEDWELL built 1935. On 17 January 1942 SPEEDWELL stood by ss HARMATRIS after she had been torpedoed during Arctic Convoy PQ8 and assisted in towing her into comparative safety in Murmansk.

The image shows two RAF Supermarine Spitfires attacking a group of German minesweepers in the English Channel, the M-Boats responding with robust AA-fire. This picture gives a good example of the nearly unbelieveable amount of German propaganda drawings and paintings, made during World War II. This

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German Navy minesweeper M1094, Ensdorf, tied up alongside replenishment ship A516, Donau.

Polish minesweeper 621 Flaming entering Devonport, Plymouth on a very dull day in October.

Minesweeper - Portsmouth

According to the caption, the photograph shows a sinking German minesweeper in WW 1. The minesweeper belongs to the class M-Boot 1914 or 1915 (476/513 ts), together with their successor, the M-Boot 1916, the largest class of standardized minesweepers built during WW 1. 176 of these vessels were ord

After being vandalised at Stockton on Tees, broken up in situ.

HMS Kellington, M1154, Minesweeper on River Tyne For more info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Kellington_%28M1154%29

Minesweeper M39 at Hartlepool.

Taken by RNAS Culdrose photographic dept. My Father was CO at the time

HMS Spey photographed on the 5 June 1994 while part for the Fleet review to celebrate tyhe 50th anivessary of tyh D Day landiings, HMS Spey was a River-class minesweeper launched in 1985 and sold to the Brazilian Navy in 1998 and renamed Pegasus, and then Bocaina. All of the River Class minesweepers

A WWII US Navy auxiliary minesweeper, now used as a houseboat in Seattle, Washington. Seen on July 29, 2009.

Photographed at Cardiff in May 2000. I believe it may be one of the River Class minesweepers built in the mid 80's I've inset pictures of the crests/badges on the funnel and bridge front plus the name plate. Looks like it was visiting Cardiff, incognito!

Paravanes of previous HMAS CASTLEMAINE museum ship, Williamstown Victoria, one kilometer from where she was built and launched in 1941.

HMAS Catlemaine is a preserved corvette/minesweeper berthed at Williamstown, Melbourne

Minesweeper crossing Clyde opposite Kilkreggan, taken from top of Lyle Hill 19/2/2005