The North Sea Mine Barrage, also known as the Northern Barrage, was a large minefield laid easterly from the Orkney Islands to Norway by the United States...
27 KB (3,472 words) - 17:14, 29 July 2024
exits of the North Sea, the Allies developed the North Sea Mine Barrage. During a period of five months from June 1918, almost 70,000 mines were laid spanning...
118 KB (14,855 words) - 12:05, 25 September 2024
offensive mining campaign in U.S. Navy history, the laying of the North Sea Mine Barrage in 1918. He was also a published author, an inventor, a member of...
33 KB (3,816 words) - 08:02, 25 August 2024
North Sea Mine Barrage". The Great War Society. Retrieved May 1, 2012. Belknap, Reginald Rowan The Yankee mining squadron; or, Laying the North Sea mining...
28 KB (3,554 words) - 09:41, 25 September 2024
guarded by destroyers, blockades such as the Dover Barrage and minefields such as the North Sea Mine Barrage were laid, and aircraft patrols monitored the...
31 KB (4,150 words) - 22:39, 26 August 2024
other in the North Sea, which became the main theatre of the war for surface action. Britain's larger fleet and North Sea Mine Barrage were able to establish...
136 KB (12,101 words) - 20:19, 25 September 2024
Navy had a base at Corpach as part of the laying of the North Sea Mine Barrage. Naval mines were shipped into Corpach from the United States, and were...
4 KB (321 words) - 04:27, 9 March 2022
USS Oglala (category World War I mine warfare vessels of the United States)
Hill, were among eight civilian steamships purchased to lay the North Sea Mine Barrage. Three new ships for the New England Navigation Company, controlled...
35 KB (3,757 words) - 14:46, 27 March 2024
United States Navy (section Mine countermeasures ships)
Cruiser and Transport Force. It also concentrated on laying the North Sea Mine Barrage. Hesitation by the senior command meant that naval forces were not...
130 KB (12,678 words) - 10:42, 23 September 2024
Otranto Barrage during the war. Postwar, she saw service in the Adriatic Sea, in North Russia, and in the clearance of the North Sea Mine Barrage. After...
16 KB (1,824 words) - 17:51, 27 December 2023
USS Housatonic (SP-1697) (category World War I mine warfare vessels of the United States)
company ships temporarily converted for planting the World War I North Sea Mine Barrage. El Rio was built for the Morgan Line in 1899 and served as a freighter...
17 KB (1,618 words) - 17:20, 3 November 2022
Commander, Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal both for directing the laying of the North Sea Mine Barrage and for...
5 KB (523 words) - 01:18, 5 March 2024
Naval warfare of World War I (section North Sea)
use elsewhere. In 1918 the U.S. Navy with British help laid the North Sea Mine Barrage designed to keep U-boats from slipping into the Atlantic. Major...
38 KB (4,873 words) - 05:17, 19 September 2024
Frank Wead (section Sea duty)
for the remaining months of the war operated in the area of the North Sea Mine Barrage. Following the armistice with Germany, Wead returned stateside aboard...
44 KB (5,123 words) - 16:03, 26 August 2024
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown (redirect from Navy Mine Depot, Yorktown)
property to establish the Navy Mine Depot, Yorktown at this site. The Navy planned to lay the North Sea Mine Barrage to protect commercial shipping and...
14 KB (1,273 words) - 07:11, 25 July 2024
undergoing repairs and fitting out for her pending duty sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage. During this time, paravanes ("Burney Gear") were installed in the...
24 KB (3,157 words) - 15:43, 10 November 2022
U-boat campaign (section North Sea: Initial stage)
scheme to create a barrage across the routes exiting the North Sea. The North Sea Mine Barrage saw the laying of over 70,000 mines during the summer of...
75 KB (9,518 words) - 11:20, 26 September 2024
USS Canandaigua (ID-1694) (category World War I mine warfare vessels of the United States)
freighter El Siglo temporarily converted for planting the World War I North Sea Mine Barrage. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company launched El Siglo...
7 KB (671 words) - 17:20, 3 November 2022
officers, as minelaying officers in the North Sea (where they were involved in the laying of the North Sea Mine Barrage), as navigators aboard troop transports...
48 KB (3,597 words) - 23:58, 19 September 2024
begun, the possibility of a Northern Barrage between the Orkney Islands and Norway (similar to the North Sea Mine Barrage of World War I) had been considered...
18 KB (1,618 words) - 01:40, 17 March 2024
USS Quinnebaug (SP-1687) (category World War I mine warfare vessels of the United States)
naval service and, as USS Quinnebaug, participated in planting the North Sea Mine Barrage. In March 1919 the ship returned to service as Jefferson with the...
8 KB (639 words) - 06:20, 21 June 2022
was soon busy in the post-war clearing of the North Sea Mine Barrage. On 9 July a mine exploded in her kite, causing minor damage. In August, while laying...
5 KB (521 words) - 07:15, 5 June 2022
aboard the Jarvis at Queenstown, then had duty assembling mines for the North Sea Mine Barrage. After World War I, Wright attended the USN's ordnance postgraduate...
7 KB (665 words) - 18:50, 22 September 2024
German decks were a very dark gray. Smaller ships operating in the North Sea or Baltic Sea were painted white or a very pale gray to blend in with daytime...
43 KB (5,018 words) - 12:13, 26 August 2024
Clyde with a cargo of nava; minelaying equipment to be used on the North Sea Mine Barrage. On 3 April 1918, Ozama she returned to Norfolk and for the remainder...
4 KB (266 words) - 18:42, 28 April 2023
for American minelayers adding to the North Sea Mine Barrage. After a two-day return to Scapa Flow, Texas put to sea with the Grand Fleet to conduct two...
108 KB (12,340 words) - 00:42, 25 September 2024
Second Battle of Heligoland Bight (1917) Zeebrugge Raid (1918) North Sea Mine Barrage (1918) First bombardment of mount Lovćen Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau...
53 KB (5,818 words) - 05:58, 24 September 2024
Cruiser Minelayers (CM); they had participated in the laying of the North Sea mine barrage during WW1. Other large minelayers with no cruiser features or history...
75 KB (8,251 words) - 01:51, 18 August 2024
technical complexities required to implement his proposal for a North Sea Mine Barrage. After his retirement, he settled down to write books with titles...
19 KB (2,316 words) - 01:18, 24 August 2024
October 1918. Some career highlights include helping to clean up the North Sea Mine Barrage in 1919;the ship was severely damaged in that operation. After being...
9 KB (1,046 words) - 03:09, 16 July 2022