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
Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (ship) home port is currently Nizhny Novgorod. The ship has two restaurants, two bars, solarium and resting area. Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (ship) The Feliks Dzerzhinskiy () is a "Valerian Kuybyshev"-class (92-016, OL400) Soviet/Russian river cruise ship, cruising in the Volga basin. The ship was built by Slovenské Lodenice at their shipyard in Komárno, Czechoslovakia, and entered service in 1978. She was named after the Soviet statesman Felix Dzerzhinsky alias Iron Felix. At 3,935 tonnes, "Feliks Dzerzhinskiy" is one of the world's biggest river cruise ships. Her sister ships are "Valerian Kuybyshev", "Mikhail Frunze", "Fyodor Shalyapin", "Sergey Kuchkin", "Mstislav Rostropovich", "Aleksandr Suvorov", "Semyon