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Oropesa (minesweeping)

An oropesa is a streamlined towed body used in the process of minesweeping. The role of the oropesa is to keep the towed sweep at a determined depth and position from the sweeping ship. Oropesa are standard devices used on Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships.

The device derives its name from the ship on which it was developed, HMS Oropesa, a converted British steam trawler.

References

[http://www.minesweepers.org.uk/sweeping.htm minesweepers.org.uk The 'Art' of Minesweeping, May 2013],
"HMAS Castlemaine, minesweeper".
"Dinburgh model boat club, WW2 mine sweeping, by Iain Moffatt, 1 July 2005".
[https://www.friends-amis.org/index.php/en/document-repository/english/fact-sheets/245-minesweeping/file The Friends of the Canadian War Museum, Minesweeping, by Capt (N) (Ret'd) M. Braha]
[https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/an-slq-38.htm AN/SLQ-38 Federation of American Scientists, Standard Mechanical Minesweep]
''History of United States Naval Operations in World War II'', page 114, By Samuel Eliot Morison

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