I was stationed on three minesweepers. The USS Gallant, USS Conquest and USS Enhance. They were all with a wooden hull. We hunted for mines from 0400 the 2000. Add being attacked by Iranian Boghammars. We used shoulder launched stinger missiles to combat them. It was pretty hair raising to be in that situation. It was late 1986 through 1988. Our job was to keep the Straits of Hormuz open to shipping. It’s an experience I’ll never forget.
They were wooden because steel mine sweepers and hunters need to be regularly de-gaussed to stop them setting off magnetic mines, it sounds like you had a great time.
i was also on the USS Enhance but during operation Endsweep at the end of the war in Vietnam in 1973. Wooden Ships and Rusty Crusty Iron Men USS Enhance MSO 437
Minehunter, minesweeper... either way, you've got some very brave men serving aboard a vessel designed to go into a potential minefield in order to protect the lives of others. Nothing but Respect for such men, from a former Amphibious Ship Sailor.
Got 10-15 years on those ships I've lost count even worked on the old 1950's model the Adjutant-class minesweeper. Now that was some realy oldschool shit. Surprisingly they where realy old ships but still worked as intended. Just like they say,they don't make them like that anymore.
Norwegian Navy received some Adjutant class minesweepers. It was called the Sauda class (1966-1996). KNM Alta (M314) is the only one remaining as a military museum ship that is operational.
Ive been on U.S.S. HAZARD, AM-240 numerous times since I was a kid in the 1970's. The largest ship to travel up the Missouri River under her own power back then. Shes now sitting on the riverbank at Freedom Park in Omaha, Nebraska alongside U.S.S. Marlin T-2, a diesel traning sub in the 1950's. The HAZARD is the last Admirable Class in existence since the city of St. Louis allowed U.S.S. INAUGURAL to break free and sink in the Mississippi years ago.
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Largely bullshit. A Frigate was used as a guineapig sweep, but only coz the minesweepers were still in South Georgia. I was in the 11th Mine countermeasures Squadron that went to the Falklands. There were 5 STUFT EDATS - Ships Taken Up From Trade, Extra Deep Armed Team Sweep, HMS Cordella, Junella, Farnella, Northella & Pict. We swept 2 minefields off Port Stanley, one mine was recovered, disarmed and is now in a museum in Portsmouth.
The Flower class small ships were not only used against mines, they were also used in large number as Corvettes escorting and protecting convoys particularly on the Arctic convoys trying to supply Russia from England, the ships were barely seaworthy for Arctic waters at the best of times and fighting off U-Boats and air attacks didn't make it any easier, these men were indeed of Greatest Generation.
My father and uncle were both on MSS1 an experimental NAVAL DEVICE. commissioned in the late 60's it was full of blown in closed cell foam and then the hull was flooded in order to keep it from capsizing from buckled hull plates it was made from the HARRY L GLUCKMAN a 500ft liberty ship and powered by (5) GMC 12-71 diesels running 360 degree harbor master pinion drives it could hold itself stationary in the ocean currents and had AC powered electrics and could pulse currents to create the correct magnetic signatures to detonate mines designed for AIR CRAFT CARRIERS down to Destroyers. Dad was on from 67-71 after blowing up crap in the Dry Tortugas and the gulf of Mexico the ship was sent to Vietnam in late 1971.- 72 plenty of info and photos of plumes of water obstructing the view of the ship on NAV SOURCE
Huh. I have always known that the Australian Navy Huon Class are mine hunters, but I always thought it was just a name variation and that hunter/sweeper were interchangeable. I now know how uninformed I was.
Canada built 20 minesweepers in the 1950s with wooden hulls over aluminum frames. They were the Bay Class Minesweeper and a dozen of them were subsequently sold to the French and Turkish navies. A few of the remained in service into the 1990s.
I was stationed on the uss Assurance mso 521 (later AG 521) in the mid 70,s . we had a wooden hull with degaussing cables wrapped around the inner hull to keep us from being attracted to magnetic mines . we all so had some thing called an acoustic generator . not sure what that did . fun stuff . but not long after being assigned to assurance the navy decided to change it over to a different type of ship that looked for Russian submarines instead . so all of the anti mine equipment was removed and specialized sonar equipment was installed .
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The difference between a minehunter from a minesweeper? Isn't it is so obvious about the difference? One is a minehunter and the other is a minesweeper! What else/ a hunter is not a sweeper and vice versa. That is it, and that is all. Lol!
A Pitiful video! Did an adult review this video prior to release? What is with the horrible distracting music? Best of luck, but this is a rather awful format!
I bet the Russians have state of the art mine detectors and removal capabilities!! They will be the heroes SOON as they remove the sea mines Ukraine lost in their sea blocking THEMSELVES from selling their grain!! Russia will make it possible for them to deliver their grain!!!
The Russians are not competent enough to pull off any of the derring-doo that you fantasize about. The Russian navy is mostly an obsolete, rusty pile of junk manned by morons.