Evacuation guide
As Räumgeleit a method which is mine countermeasures in fleets referred that the safety of war and merchant ships is to ensure driving in mined waters. Evacuation guides are mainly used if, after mine clearing in a body of water, mines have to be reckoned with or it can be assumed that sea mines with an unknown ignition principle have been laid.
The mine clearance boats used in the evacuation guide drive ahead of the formation to be protected with deployed clearing equipment, and depending on the clearing equipment used, they take a relay formation or drive in groups . The guided ships (war or merchant ships) run in the keel line with a distance of at least half a cable length (92.6 m) behind the clearing ships.
The term comes from the technical language of the Volksmarine , in other German and western navies the procedure is not introduced.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Gebauer, Egon Krenz: Marine encyclopedia from A - Z. Unabridged licensed edition. Tosa, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85492-757-6 .