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Pressure cooker.[:'(]....GP

The bottom of a Warp Plasma storage container....GP

ORIGINAL: General Patton

Pressure cooker.[:'(]....GP

It does look akin to some sort of stove, doesn't it?

But that's still wrong. [:'(]

ORIGINAL: General Patton

The bottom of a Warp Plasma storage container....GP

Umm...whut? No.

Hmm, if those are wheels on the base like I think they are, then this may be the anchor weight from a moored sea mine.

ORIGINAL: Shark7

Hmm, if those are wheels on the base like I think they are, then this may be the anchor weight from a moored sea mine.

Hmmm...you're getting warmer...

CVE-73 Gambier Bay

It's a really big dutch oven.... or a mine not the floating kind but like a port mine, sits on the bottom. Didn't they have cable triggers that were floated above the mine?

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn
a mine not the floating kind but like a port mine, sits on the bottom. Didn't they have cable triggers that were floated above the mine?

You're getting warmer. And not in a Dutch oven way.

ORIGINAL: Pentakomo

CVE-73 Gambier Bay

Hi Pentakomo,

The CVE-73 Gambier Bay was from post #332 on 7/15. It was quickly guessed and confirmed on posts #333 and #334

1-drifting mine,
2-drifting mine,
3-moored mine,
4-moored mine (short wire),
5-bottom mines,
6-torpedo mine/CAPTOR mine,
7-rising mine


It's a moored mine.

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

1 Limpet mines.
2 Moored contact mines.
3 Drifting contact mines.
4 Moored mines.
5 Bottom mines.
6 Bouquet mine.
7 Anti-sweep mine.
8 Oscillating mine.


A moored mine.

Interesting graphic, but you've got your caption for #2 and #3 reversed.

Interesting graphic, but you've got your caption for #2 and #3 reversed.

Several were off, copied the wrong list, corrected. It's 3,4,6 or 7

3-moored mine,
4-moored mine (short wire),
6-torpedo mine/CAPTOR mine,
7-rising mine

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

Interesting graphic, but you've got your caption for #2 and #3 reversed.

Several were off, copied the wrong list, corrected. It's 3,4,6 or 7

3-moored mine,
4-moored mine (short wire),
6-torpedo mine/CAPTOR mine,
7-rising mine

No. The object in question is not any of those categories 3, 4, 6 or 7 in your corrected graphic.

OK. We know it's NOT a mine. Is it a platform to CONVEY mines. As in it transports the mine along a mine rail to the stern of the ship where the mine separates ,and sinks. And the platform is either disposed of or in some way recovered for re-use? [&:]

Awwww...looks like I'm torturing y'all. Here's the item in question. And it *is* a mine. A bottom magnetic mine (harbor defense), Mk. 18.

The bottom section is packed with 1350 lb. explosives and a search coil is deployed from the 'stove pipe'. The wheels on the bottom are for ease in deploying while rolling off the back of a ML.

Here's a similar cluster of Mk. 51 mines on land pre-deployment. Looks like a field kitchen doesn't it?

Any guesses about this one? (Cough) Steve? (Cough)

What's with the Ozzie bomb?

I'm going to say an airborne depth bomb. The explosive was developed by the Australians and quite stable and flexible. They even could use it in the Mk 46 torpedo.