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I'm very sad to report that my friend Bill Schleihauf, noted RN historian, author, and site-owner of the The Maritime War website [ http://www.gwpda.org/naval/n0000000.htm ] passed away last week at much too early an age. Bill was a terrific network engineer, a great drinking buddy, a...

According to some primary source data I've been privileged to see, the RN only laid about 1200 mines in the North Sea during 1916 [down from about 4500 mines in 1915]. Thought it might be of interest.