Title:MINESWEEPING PART 1: MECHANICAL [Main Title]
Film Number:DRN 3179
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Summary: Navy Instructional film explaining the arrangement of minesweeping equipment onboard a Hunt Class Mine Countermeasures Vessel (MCMV). The procedures for preparing, streaming and recovering the array are shown. The film also shows preparation for laying of a danbuoy, explains its purpose and goes on to demonstrate the procedure for its recovery. Shot onboard the Hunt Class MCMV HMS Cattistock (M.31), and also showing scenes of buoyant mines being laid from the exercise minelayer HMS Abdiel (N.21).