Naval mine ship, HMHS "Britannic", which was the sister ship of the RMS "Titanic." During World War II, the U-boat fleet, which dominated much of the battle of the Atlantic, was small at the beginning of the war and much of the early action by German forces involved mining convoy routes and ports around Britain. German submarines also operated in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the U.S. coast. Initially, contact mines (requiring a ship to physically strike a mine to detonate it) were employed, usually tethered at the end of a cable just below the surface of the
Mikhail Frunze (ship) sauna and resting area. Mikhail Frunze (ship) The Mikhail Frunze () is a "Valerian Kuybyshev"-class (92-016, OL400) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga – Kama – Neva basin. The ship was built by Slovenské Lodenice at their shipyard in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, and entered service in 1980. At 4,050 tonnes, "Mikhail Frunze" is one of the biggest of Russian river cruise ships currently in service with Vodohod. Her sister ships are "Valerian Kuybyshev", "Fyodor Shalyapin", "Feliks Dzerzhinskiy", "Sergey Kuchkin", "Mstislav Rostropovich", "Aleksandr Suvorov", "Semyon Budyonnyy" and "Georgiy Zhukov". Her home port is currently Nizhny Novgorod. The ship has two