HMS Abercrombie

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[Kev The Modeller]

Lovely build 

[Chewbacca]

On ‎27‎/‎08‎/‎2018 at 20:44, beefy66 said:

Thanks

 

the large A frame on the bow was for the Acoustic Hammer when mine sweeping

Must not have been very good because she was damaged by mines twice  

And Roberts did have one of these also

 

Keith

Acoustic hammers only work against acoustic mines!  As far as I am aware, ABERCROMBIE twice struck contact mines for which the only defence is a good lookout and a good turn of wheel!

 

I remember flying minesearch around USS TRIPOLI around 2 hours after she struck a contact mine off the Kuwaiti coast in 1991.  Damage shown below:

 

 

To be honest, I'm not sure quite how successful the acoustic hammer would have been.  In theory the concept is sound (no pun intended) in that you create a sound source ahead of the ship to trigger the mine before the ship passes over the mine.  But for the ship to be outside of the damage area, the acoustic source would have to be a considerable distance ahead and from all of the photos I have seen the booms don't look especially long.

Edited September 3, 2018 by Chewbacca
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[beefy66]

Thanks for this info on the mines you see you can learn something new everyday on this here great site  

 

And thanks for all the kind words of encouragement with this build

 

beefy

[RussellE]

Very nice Keith and congratulations on your award! 🙂 Very well deserved!

[salmo G]

I like it, very odd subject matter but quite cool in my eyes, may have to look into picking one of these up!