File:SS Port Chalmers Paravane.jpg

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Air Attacks: An aerial torpedo caught in the paravane wire of the PORT CHALMERS. The ship could not slow down to free the torpedo for fear that it would explode against the ship's side. In the end the whole paravane fitted was ditched and the torpedo exploded harmlessly on the bottom.

Source

Imperial War Museum. "HU 1966". IWM Collections Search.

Date

13th August 1942

Author

Royal Navy photographer

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Royal Navy picture, w:en:Crown Copyright deemed to have expired 50 years from publication. From the Imperial War Museum online collection.

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