Type of mining used to render shipping routes dangerous or to bottle up enemy harbors. Type of mine that requires the ship touch the mine or its antenna to explode. Hull design type of nuclear submarines
*Offensive *Contact *Albacore
Name given to mines during the U.S. Civil War Magnetic, acoustic and pressure mines make up what general type of mines? Noise generated by the movement of screw blades in water is called what?
*Torpedoes *Influence *Cavitation
Name of the Union monitor sunk by a submerged mine at the battle of Mobile Bay. A mine which consists of an acoustic homing torpedo moored to the bottom by cable. The most difficult type of Influence Mine to sweep.
*Tecumseh *CAPTOR *Pressure
Types of mines with buoyant cases tethered at a predetermined depth by cables. Wrapping a ships hull after construction with electric coils to reduce its permanent magnetic field. Type of mine triggered by noise.
*Moored *Deperming *Acoustic

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