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The minesweepers of the Royal Canadian Navy toiled in comparative obscurity, unlike their more celebrated cousins, the corvettes and frigates. In devoting a book to minesweepers, Ken Macpherson makes amends for what he considers a long ignored oversight.

Out Sweeps!: The Story of the Minesweepers in World War II

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From 1953-1994, sixty-five U.S. Navy ocean minesweepers (MSOs) swept mines; searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships, and lost munitions; "showed the flag" throughout the world, even sailing up the Congo and Mekong Rivers, calling at dozens

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From 1953-1994, sixty-five U.S. Navy ocean minesweepers (MSOs) swept mines; searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships, and lost munitions; "showed the flag" throughout the world, even sailing up the Congo and Mekong Rivers, calling at dozens

From 1953 to 1976, twenty-four U.S. Navy coastal minesweepers (MSCs) swept mines, searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships and lost munitions, “showed the flag” in the Caribbean and throughout the Far East, and played a key role in the Vietnam War. Atlantic Fleet coastal minesweepers searched for a nuclear bomb buried in the sea bed off Savannah, Georgia, as a result of a midair collision between two U.S. Air Force aircraft and provided support for the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. MSCs based at Sasebo, Japan, conducted patrols off Vietnam to interdict smuggling of supplies by sea to the Viet Cong in the South. One, USS Vireo, participated in the destruction of an enemy gun runner. Much smaller minesweeping boats (MSBs) kept the Long Tau River, which passed through the dangerous “Forest of Assassins” and connected the South China Sea to Saigon, open to merchant vessels delivering military cargos to allied forces. Facing daily the possibility of death by Viet Cong mine or riverbank ambush, the thirteen boats of Mine Squadron Eleven Detachment Alfa comprised the first Navy unit to be awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for heroism by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Possessing too few minecraft to support its riverine combat operations, the U.S. Navy also pressed existing landing craft and newly built assault support patrol boats and minesweeping drones into these duties. The unheralded MSBs and steel-hulled minecraft collectively garnered four Presidential Unit Citations, three Meritorious Unit Commendations, and three Navy Unit Commendations. Significant numbers of the small enlisted crews that took the craft in harm’s way received the Navy Cross, Silver Star and Bronze Star Medals for acts of heroism performed under fire.Photographs, maps, diagrams and tables, appendices and an index to full-names, places and subjects add to the value of this work.

John Lambert was a renowned naval draftsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by model makers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016, he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been published. Following the first volume on destroyer armament, this one covers all such weapons carried by the various types of British escorts and minesweepers of this era, including the "passive" elements like sweeping gear, decoys, and electronics.The drawings are backed by introductory essays by Norman Friedman, an acknowledged authority on naval ordnance, while a selection of photographs adds to the value of the book as a visual reference. Over time, the series will be expanded to make this unique technical archive available in published form, a move certain to be welcomed by warship modelers, enthusiasts, and the many fans of John Lambert's work.

Here, through an extraordinary combination of text and pictures, is the story of John Wayne, American legend, and his life on board the famed Wild Goose.The 136-foot ship, a former U.S. Navy minesweeper, was the actor's favorite retreat and proudest possession. During the last sixteen years of his iife, Wayne spent much of his leisure time aboard the yacht cruising off Mexico, the Pacific Northwest and Catalina. The Wild Goose came to dominate his life in a way that only his family and work had done before.Sharing that life in this entertaining memoir is Captain Bert Minshall, who joined the Goose as a green deckhand in late 1963 and ended up not only as Wayne's last skipper, but as his friend and confidant. It is a story that is at once adventurous and intimate, at times touched with exuberant humor, at times with tragedy.These pages reveal the legendary Duke: charismatic, fun-loving, occasionally difficult and prone to angry outbursts, a movie star who enjoyed a good laugh or a prank with the abandon of a young boy, a sailor at heart who delighted in his big, aging navy workhorse.From Captain Minshall's first meeting with Wayne - when the actor calmly and deliberately spit on the deckhand's new deckshoes, claiming it was "good luck" - to the actor's last poignant voyage to Catalina shortly before his death, On Board with the Duke is a revealing look at a complex and fascinating man.

Here, through an extraordinary combination of text and pictures, is the story of John Wayne, American legend, and his life on board the famed Wild Goose.The 136-foot ship, a former U.S. Navy minesweeper, was the actor's favorite retreat and proudest possession. During the last sixteen years of his iife, Wayne spent much of his leisure time aboard the yacht cruising off Mexico, the Pacific Northwest and Catalina. The Wild Goose came to dominate his life in a way that only his family and work had done before.Sharing that life in this entertaining memoir is Captain Bert Minshall, who joined the Goose as a green deckhand in late 1963 and ended up not only as Wayne's last skipper, but as his friend and confidant. It is a story that is at once adventurous and intimate, at times touched with exuberant humor, at times with tragedy.These pages reveal the legendary Duke: charismatic, fun-loving, occasionally difficult and prone to angry outbursts, a movie star who enjoyed a good laugh or a prank with the abandon of a young boy, a sailor at heart who delighted in his big, aging navy workhorse.From Captain Minshall's first meeting with Wayne - when the actor calmly and deliberately spit on the deckhand's new deckshoes, claiming it was "good luck" - to the actor's last poignant voyage to Catalina shortly before his death, On Board with the Duke is a revealing look at a complex and fascinating man.

Caught off Okinawa in the fiercest typhoon in history at the end of World War II. Elmer Renner, then a young officer aboard a US minesweeper, recounts the horror of his ship sinking. Renner and eight other sailors clung to a small raft for days, battling thirst, hunger, shark attacks and, eventually, madness. Renner and co-author Ken Birks describe the men's panic as distant ships seemingly ignore their desperate calls, the sea turning blood red when one of the men loses his life to a shark, and how another slips silently away into the unforgiving Pacific.

This study of the Kriegsmarine's Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a gap in the study of the German navy in World War II. This book describes the wide array of vessels including patrol boats, minesweepers, submarine hunters, barrage breakers, landing craft, minelayers, and even the riverine flotilla that patrolled the Danube as it snaked towards the Black Sea. These vessels may not have provided the glamour associated with capital ships and U-boats, but they were crucial to the survival of the Kriegsmarine at every stage of hostilities.As naval construction was unable to keep pace with the likely demand for security vessels, Grossadmiral Erich Raeder turned to the conversion of merchant vessels. For example, trawlers were requisitioned as patrol boats (Vorpostenboote) and minesweepers (Minensucher), while freighters, designated Sperrbrecher, were filled with buoyant materials and sent to clear minefields. Submarine hunters (U-Boot Jäger) were requisitioned fishing vessels. More than 120 flotillas operated in wildly different conditions, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, and eighty-one men were to be awarded the Knight's Cross; some were still operating after the cessation of hostilities clearing German minefields. Paterson documents organizational changes, describes the vessels, and recounts individual actions of ships at sea. Extensive appendices are included.

This A-Z guide covers the life and careers of over 600 key figures in naval history, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Featuring influential figures from the UK, US and around the world, from the great admirals such as Nelson, to minesweepers, designers and administrators, it is an invaluable guide to those who have shaped naval history.

Well illustrated histories of the Royal Navy 'Ton' class minesweepers and their operations. 160pp. VG clean copy in dust wrapper

The Fate of the USS Tide: The Forgotten Sailors of D-Day is a descriptive account of the US naval service of the American minesweeper USS Tide in World War Two. The history is told through the eyes of its shipmates, which is based on the author's many personal interviews of the surviving crew. The Tide belonged to a secret squadron of eleven minesweepers that surreptitiously crossed the English Channel in the cover of darkness the night before D-Day. The minesweeper carried out the most dangerous mission of searching for live mines to clear the way for the US Navy's many destroyers, battleships, LSTs and carrying hundreds of thousands of US troops and seemingly endless ammunition for the surprise attack. The risk was high. Being sunk by U-Boats was not uncommon in the English Channel on June 1944. The shipmates were under the pressure of a tight timetable before the arrival of the 7000 vessel armada to carry out for the largest invasion in history. The Tide and her sister ships had a unique perspective of the D-Day landings---the carnage and heroism that took place on the beaches of Normandy. Weeks before D-Day, the Tide was involved in the secret of Slapton Sands, a catastrophe covered up for 50 years. The disaster was a surprise attack on American and British forces while training for D-Day. The loss of 749 sailors and soldiers threw into doubt the plans for the D-Day invasion. Evidence of the attack would be hidden by the US government during and even after the war. The crew was sworn to secrecy, not even telling their wives or children for five decades. The minesweeper met her fate on June 7, 1944, just when the shipmates thought they were safe the day after D-Day. The story gives the reader the perspective of what the Tide shipmates experienced and gives some unique antidotes often forgotten in the annals of World War II history. Many photos included, some never before published. 361 Pages.

Aboard the fleet minesweeper Rob Roy, Lieutenant Commander Ian Ransome must challenge the war-ravaged waters of the Mediterranean to clear the way for the Allies' invasion of Italy

A highly illustrated guide to civilian and military ships from the ancient world to the present day, including sailing ships, steamships, destroyers, ironclads, submarines, passenger liners, aircraft carriers, lake steamers and river vessels, cargo ships, minelayers and minesweepers, torpedo boats, figates, curisers, and dreadnoughts

An introductory military history of the American Civil War, Shades of Blue and Gray places the 1861-1865 conflict within the broad context of evolving warfare. Emphasizing technology and its significant impact, Hattaway includes valuable material on land and sea mines, minesweepers, hand grenades, automatic weapons, the Confederate submarine, and balloons. The evolution of professionalism in the American military serves as an important connective theme throughout. Hattaway extrapolates from recent works by revisionists William Skelton and Roy Roberts to illustrate convincingly that the development of military professionalism is not entirely a post-Civil War phenomenon.The author also incorporates into his work important new findings of recent scholars such as Albert Castel (on the Atlanta Campaign), Reid Mitchell (on soldiers' motivation), Mark Grimsley (on "hard war"), Brooks D. Simpson (on Ulysses S. Grant), and Lauren Cook Burgess (on women who served as soldiers, disguised as men). In addition, Hattaway comments on some of the best fiction and nonfiction available in his recommended reading lists, which will both enlighten and motivate readers.Informative and clearly written, enhanced by graceful prose and colorful anecdotes, Shades of Blue and Gray will appeal to all general readers.

Commissioned as Navy Section Base 9 in 1917, the US Coast Guard Training Center at Cape May stands on the site of a former amusement park that bordered the Atlantic Ocean a few miles east of Cape May in southern New Jersey. Dirigibles, submarines, and minesweepers were based here during World War I. Because of its proximity to the ocean and Delaware Bay, the base was used by Coast Guard patrol boats and cutters to chase rumrunners during Prohibition in the 1920s. An airfield was established adjacent to the base in 1926, and in 1940, both combined to become Naval Air Station Cape May. The station protected the coast line from German U-boats during World War II. The Coast Guard took over the facility in 1946, and in 1948, the base became the only recruit training center in the country, today graduating more than 4,000 recruits per year.