June was spent clearing the entrance to the port of Civitavecchia and elsewhere off the Italian coast to clear passages for ships supporting the military advance . In July she cleared a passage into Livorno . Altogether 250 mines were cleared from the various minesweepers engaged in these operations , often while under fire from the shore . The later part of the year saw '' Mutine '' carrying out sweeping duties off Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean . In October the ships of '' Mutine '' ’s flotilla were congratulated by the Supreme Commander , Mediterranean , for having swept 1013 mines . Further work in the Aegean Sea followed , where '' Mutine '' suffered slight damage while sweeping one of the new German ' Oboe ' mines . On 17 December '' Mutine '' , '' Fly '' and swept a passage through the Dardanelles to ensure safe passage for the warships taking Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Yalta Conference to meet Joseph Stalin . '' Mutine '' spent Christmas 1944 in Mudros
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
HMS Mutine (J227)