Submarine Mine Type I (UK)

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Submarine Mines Type I and II[1]

The British Submarine Mine Type I was a moored mine designed to be fired from 18-in torpedo tubes.[2]

Characteristics
Weight of Mine, primed 420 lbs.
Weight of sinker 580 lbs.
Total Weight in air 1000 lbs.
Total Weight in water 357 lbs.
Charge 125 lbs. Amatol
Total length, mine and sinker 9 ft 2 in
Total length of sinker 4 ft 8 in
Diameter 17.7 in.

Action of Laying and Detonation

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. Plate 56.
  2. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. pp. 150-152.

Bibliography

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