Mark 6 VI US Navy moored antenna mine
The Navy ordered 100,000 Mark VI (MK 6) mines in 1917 and, carrying a 300-pound charge, remained in U.S. service into the 1980s. Gamble and her sisters could carry as many as 85 of these on a pair of rails that ran, port and starboard, down the aft half of the ship.
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