Operation End Sweep [SEP] end time
that the United States had concluded its mine countermeasures operations in North Vietnamese waters.
Operation End Sweep ended officially on 27 July 1973, and Task Force 78 withdrew from North Vietnamese waters the following day.
Results.
In addition to "Engage", "Force", "Fortify", and "Impervious", the ocean minesweepers , , , , , and took part in some part of End Sweep; six of the ten ocean minesweepers conducted actual sweeping operations, as did "Washtenaw County" in her
sweep the Heligoland Bight, but bad weather prevented operations in the southern North Sea. As a result, the operation was confined to the northern end of the sea. Another sweep began on 6 March, but had to be abandoned the following day as the weather grew too severe for the escorting destroyers. On the night of 25 March, "Bellerophon" and the rest of the fleet sailed from Scapa Flow to support Beatty's battlecruisers and other light forces raiding the German Zeppelin base at Tondern. By the time the Grand