After being informed by a local fisherman, a Naval disposal party headed out to tackle a washed up mine near Anstruther on the Ayrshire coast. 

As you know here at Erskine we love sharing colourised images of WW2, especially when they're so close to home. The image shows the two very brave men from the Royal Navy making notes on the enemy sea mine before it was defused.  One false move could have detonated the mine.

It has been reported that 1,677 unexploded bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe remain active across the country. And in June 2012, bomb disposal experts said that they were called out to an average of 138 instances of unexploded ordnance being discovered.

Around 21,000 bombs are believed to be buried across Britain while there are estimated to be nearly 200,000 unexploded mines from both world wars scattered around the coast of the UK.

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