MGA410_DAR MATOIN
(2024)
author(s): Anthia Georgiou, Kyriaki Charalambous, Sofia Mina, Γιωργος Αλουπας, Maria Stavrou
Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : Department of Multimedia & Graphic Arts - Cyprus University of Technology - [Internal]
Location: Europe - Asia
Time Period: 1870
In the Franco-German war of 1870-1871, the Germans prevented the French fleet from reaching their ports by using mines detonated by an electric cable from the land. Until the Russo-Turkish War, the mine was thus considered a defensive weapon, when in May 1877 a small group of Russian divers descending the Lower Danube placed an electric mine on the propeller of the Ottoman warship Dar Matoin, causing the ship to explode and sink. Our team tracked down a small mine from the debris of warship “Dar Matoin” in the early 2000s and we started researching it.
