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Polish wz. 08/39 contact mine in the open-air museum of naval equipment in Hel

1 Early History

The English may have used the first naval mines in 1627 at the Siege of La Rochelle, where they launched "floating petards" unsuccessfully against the French navy.

However, an American, David Bushnell invented the first practical mine for use against the British in the American War of Independence. It was a watertight keg filled with gunpowder that was ignited by a percussion lock when it struck a ship.

The American Civil War saw the first successful use of mines, by both sides. The first ship sunk by a mine was the USS Cairo in 1863 in the Yazoo River. Rear Adm. David Farragut's famous quote, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! refers to a minefield laid at Mobile, Ala.Mobile is a city located in Mobile County, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 198,915. Mobile is the center of Alabama's Second Largest Metropolitan Area (which consists of Mobile and Baldwin Counties) and Metropolitan Mobile ha

In the 19th century, mines were called torpedoA modern torpedo is a self-propelled guided projectile that operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. Torpedoes are weapons that may be launched from submarines, surface ships, helicopters and fixed-wing aircres, a name likely conferred by Robert FultonRobert Fulton ( November 14, 1765 February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor. Fulton was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He may have become interested in steamboats in 1777 when (at the age of 12) he visited William Henry of Lancaste after a fish that gives powerful electric shockAn electric shock may occur upon contact with electricity. An electric shock can be lethal, but the level of voltage is not a direct guide to lethality, despite the popularity of such a measure. Physiological effects are determined by voltage, current ands. A spar torpedo was a mine attached to a long pole and detonated when the ship carrying it rammed another one. CSS HunleyHunley was a submarine of the Confederate States Navy that demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare. Hunley was the first submarine to engage and sink a warship. History Privately invented by Horace Lawson Hunley and built in 1 used one to sink USS HousatonicUSS Housatonic was a screw sloop-of-war of the United States Navy, named for one of the rivers of New England which rises in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and flows southward into Connecticut before emptying into Long Island Sound a little east of Brid on Feb. 17 , 1864Events January March January 21 Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign starts. February 27 American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. March 1- Alejandro Mon Menendez takes office as Prime Minist. A Harvey Torpedo was a type of floating mine towed alongside a ship, and was briefly in service in the Royal NavyThe Royal Navy is the navy of the United Kingdom. It operates a number of aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, fifteen nuclear submarines, and various other ships, as well as aircraft and Britain's amphibious forces, the Royal Marines. The Royal Navy in the 1870s. Other "torpedoes" attached to ships or even launched under their own power. One such weapon, called the Whitehead Torpedo after its inventor, eventually drew the appellation from static devices to self-propelled underwater missiles.

The mine's next major use came in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, where the Russian battleship Petropavlovsk was sunk, killing the fleet commander, Admiral Makaroff , and most of the crew.

Many of the early mines were extremely fragile and dangerous to handle, with glass containers filled with nitroglycerine or mechanical devices that activated them upon tipping. Several minelaying ships were destroyed when their cargo exploded.

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