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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1. Mines, Minelaying and Minelayers: Origins to the Eve of the Second World War

2. Getting It Just Right – Designing the Abdiel Class

3. The Royal Navy Readies for Mine Warfare in the Second World War

4. The Abdiel Completes and Proves Her Worth: Home Waters and the Mediterranean, 1941

5. The Latona Takes to the Water and Sails around the Cape, 1941

6. Pawns of Coalition War – The Abdiel and Latona on the Tobruk Run, 1941

7. The Manxman Enters the Fray: Malta Runs and a Disguise, 1941

8. The Welshman Joins the Manxman: Laying Mines for the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, 1941–1942

9. The Abdiel and then the Manxman to the Indian Ocean, 1941–1942

10. The Welshman and the Manxman to Malta’s Rescue, 1942

11. The Manxman, Welshman and Abdiel Wreak Havoc in the Mediterranean, 1942–1943

12. Hard Times for Fast Minelayers in the Mediterranean, 1942–1943

13. The Repeat Abdiels Take Shape, 1941–1943

14. The Ariadne Completes and Shows the Flag in the Pacific, 1943–1945

15. The Apollo Rounds Out the Six and Becomes a Yeoman Minelayer, 1944–1945

16. War’s End

17. Peacetime

18. Epilogue and Honours

Appendix: Plans, Camouflage and Models

Notes

Sources

Index

Colour plate section between pages 64 and 65