page_title: Northern Barrage
hierarchical_section_title: Northern Barrage
caption_attribution_description: English: The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS SOUTHERN PRINCE in harbour at a minelaying base on the Kyle of Lochalsh. She was the largest of the auxiliary minelayers.
context_page_description: The Northern Barrage was the name given to an extensive series of defensive minefields laid by the British during World War II in order to restrict German access to the Atlantic Ocean. The barrage stretched from the Orkney to the Faroe Islands and on toward Iceland. Mines were also laid in the Denmark Strait, north of Iceland.
context_section_description: The Northern Barrage was the name given to an extensive series of defensive minefields laid by the British during World War II in order to restrict German access to the Atlantic Ocean. The barrage stretched from the Orkney to the Faroe Islands and on toward Iceland. Mines were also laid in the Denmark Strait, north of Iceland.
caption: Minelayer Southern Prince was flagship of the first Minelaying Squadron.
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