Minelayer
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A minelayer is any warship, submarine, military aircraft or land vehicle that is capable of deploying explosive mines. Since World War I, the term "minelayer" refers specifically to a naval ship used
Canadian sailors with a mine aboard the minelayer HMCS Sankaty off Halifax, Nova Scotia in World War II.
Amiral Murgescu of the Romanian Navy, a successful World War II minelayer that was also employed as a destroyer escort
Swedish minelayer Älvsborg (1974)
Finnish Navy Hämeenmaa-class minelayer FNS Uusimaa
Raid on Constanța
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The Raid on Constanța was an attack by the Soviet Black Sea Fleet on the Romanian port of Constanța on 26 June 1941, shortly after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Sovie
Romanian destroyer Mărăști
Romanian minelayer Amiral Murgescu
28 cm gun of the Tirpitz battery