Friday - July 22, 2011
UXB!
Royal Navy bomb disposal experts have destroyed a large German Second World War mine off the Essex coast, which had been picked up by a dredging vessel.
The 1 500-pound (680kg) Second World War device was dredged up last Friday by the vessel Congo River about seven miles (11km) off Walton-on-the-Naze, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said.
A team from the Royal Navy’s Southern Diving Unit 2 in Portsmouth was faced with an initially risky task of detaching the parachute mine from the vessel before laying it safely on the seabed.
“The mine was in excellent condition - in fact it was still shiny - but the dredger had pierced its skin so this was a delicate task for the team.”
Lieutenant Commander Nekrews praised Chief Petty Officer (Diver) Ian Fleming and Leading Diver Matt Baker for their efforts in safely detaching the mine from the vessel. “They were first on the scene and were faced with a challenging and precarious task but as usual they dealt with it in an extremely professional way,” Nekrews said.
“These type of devices are not uncommon, particularly in that part of the world. There are still tens of thousands of unaccounted for pieces of ordnance from the Second World War scattered throughout northern Europe.”
On April 14 the Dutch minehunter HNLMS Willemstad detected and detonated an extremely heavy German influence mine off the coast of Scotland, which dated back to the Second World War.
On March 22 this year, BP discovered a 3.5 metre long unexploded World War II German mine near one of their pipelines in the North Sea. World War II explosives have been found in the region before – in 2009 the Royal Navy destroyed two WW II explosive charges there.
More than 70 years under the ocean, and it still worked just fine.
The Essex coast is north and east of London. This is the northern end of the Channel; Walton-on-the-Naze is actually due west of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Walton-on-the-Naze is one of those wonderfully named English coastal villages, a suburb of another coastal town called Frinton And Walton; it’s out on a spit of land between the English Channel and a bay named Hamford Water which is east of Colchester. Walton-on-the-Naze is separated from that bay by Horsey Island and a small bend of water called The Twizzle.These names crack me up. Charming, quaint, but I think the Brits used to hold national competitions to see who could come up with the silliest names for places.
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