The protector or mine-sweeping paravanes were similar contrivances in that they were towed, and maintained their position in the water by similar means.
It was computed that there were at least fifty cases during the war in which paravanes fitted to warships had cut the moorings of mines, thus possibly saving the ships.
Two paravanes are used, one at each side of the ship, and the towing-cables lead from the bow of the vessel.
Paravanes are steel floats with torpedo-shaped bodies and a horizontal plane near the forward end.
The paravanes being towed submerged at an outward angle.
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