Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "HMS Abdiel - Guide 207" video.

Ref the story about an Abdiel vs USS Midway. If the minelayer tried to keep up with the carrier for any distance, it would exhaust its fuel. And if there was any sort of seaway, the minelayer would have to slow down or risk serious damage.
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Abdiel's predecessor in WW1 was a destroyer leader that served as a fast minelayer in the Grand Fleet. The RN also had the "cruiser minelayer" Adventure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Adventure_(M23) The USN rated their minelayers as CM - indicating they were a type of cruiser. You wish. Except for the USS Terror, all were converted merchantmen. She was both much bigger and slower than the Abdiels, with a capacity of 400 large mines and 800 slow and was designed to accompany an amphibious force and lay protective mine fields around captured harbors. Late in the war, she served as the flagship for COMMINEPAC (Commander Minecraft Pacific), took a kamikaze at Okinawa, but lasted until 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Terror_(CM-5) For offensive operations, the USN used twenty-two converted flush deck and twelve converted Sumner class destroyers, both rated as DM's. But the ultimate minelayer in the Pacific, was the aircraft, both Navy and Army. The Army's 21st Bomber Command in the Marianas had an entire wing of B-29's dedicated to the minelaying mission and it strangled the Japanese Home Islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Starvation
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Tell that to the Japanese, B-29's from the Army's 313th Bomb Wing strangled the Home Islands in Operation Starvation. Didn't matter if the IJN knew where they were (and the B-29's primarily operated at night), they didn't have enough sweepers. And when they did sweep an area, the damn bombers came over the next night and reseeded the field. "Mines don't work as well if everyone knows where they are" The object isn't necessarily to sink ships, but to stop them from sailing through certain waters. Japan's coastal freighters might have been afloat, but they couldn't move, so they were worthless
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"Eventually most of the major ports and straits of Japan were repeatedly mined, severely disrupting Japanese logistics and troop movements for the remainder of the war with 35 of 47 essential convoy routes having to be abandoned. For instance, shipping through Kobe declined by 85%, from 320,000 tons in March to only 44,000 tons in July. Operation Starvation sank more ship tonnage in the last six months of the war than the efforts of all other sources combined. The Twentieth Air Force flew 1,529 sorties and laid 12,135 mines in twenty-six fields on forty-six separate missions. Mining demanded only 5.7% of the XXI Bomber Command's total sorties, and only fifteen B-29s were lost in the effort. In return, mines sank or damaged 670 ships totaling more than 1,250,000 ton" Yep, laying mines from aircraft is DUMB. Uh huh. Do some research before you post.
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