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minesweeping floats/buoys
Posted by dhenning
on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 11:57 PM
I am working on converting the Lindberg Minesweeper into the USS Pirate that was lost early in the Korean War. The photos in Floating Drydock's Admirable Class CD show approx. 10 floats or buoys stored on the splinter shield for the 40mm mounts. They are labeled as sweep floats or something similar on the drawings and photos in the CD. Were these actually dan buoys instead? Does anyone have an idea of the actual color of these floats? In one book that I have read on YMS's during WWII, the author referred to them as yellow balsa floats. I could see a dan bouy being some bright color since they would be used to mark the swept channel, but wasn't some other vessel usually used to for that purpose?
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