A live German sea mine from World War Two washed up on the Sussex coast has been towed out to sea and blown up. The large metal device measuring about 6ft (1.8m) and thought to weigh about 1,000kg ...
Officials said the ordnance was a German GD Magnetic influence mine. Magnetic mines lay on the bottom of the sea until triggered by the metal hull of a ship that passed above. A spokesman for the ...