在抗日战争前几年,国民党海军当局曾经准备设立工厂自已制造水雷,并拟向国外购设备。国民党政府将此项任务交给在某个单位去承办。当到一九三七年“八一三”日军大举进攻上海时,该单位竟无一枚水雷供给江海防务的需要。中国海军只得匆忙集中力量研制水雷,到这一年的九月间才在上海南市祠庙里造出了第一批水雷。以后随着战线的西移,水雷工厂先后改设在无锡和武昌。武汉放弃后,厂址又迁 A few years before the war of resistance against Japan, the Kuomintang naval authorities were prepared to set up factories to manufacture their own mines and to purchase equipment abroad. The KMT government handed over this task to a certain unit to undertake. When the massive Japanese attack on August 13 was launched in 1937, the unit did not have a single mine ready for the defense needs of Jianghai. The Chinese navy had only to rush to concentrate on the development of mines and did not create the first mines in Shanghai’s Nanchang shrine until September of this year. Later with the westward move of the front, the mine factory has been set up in Wuxi and Wuchang. After giving up in Wuhan, the site moved again