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minelayer

NOUN
  1. ship equipped for laying marine mines

How To Use minelayer In A Sentence

  • In the first attack, they were able to destroy a Rage minelayer, the four defense satellites, and an orbital shipyard.
  • M3 was converted into a minelayer and later scrapped in the 1930s.
  • Police said she surfaced ‘in distress’ from the 40-metre dive to explore the wreck of the Second World War minelayer Cotavia.
  • Rapid ditching machines; artillery, rocket, and air-delivered mines; and ground minelayers are available on world markets.
  • In completely blacked-out underwater conditions, two divers conducted a tactile search to locate a sunken Iraqi minelayer with her deadly load.
  • A minelayer and ex-battleship were sunk and three destroyers were wrecked in dry-dock.
  • He had arrived on Malta in June 1942 as a 21-year-old aboard the fast minelayer HMS Welshman, having taken up a commission in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.
  • Afterwards, she was converted to a minelayer with 80 standard mines; but catching a trim on diving was dodgy while the huge mine-casing slowly flooded.
  • The Taiwanese navy could acquire new fleets of the most advanced diesel/electric submarines, minesweepers and minelayers and waves of high-speed torpedo boats.
  • The Taiwanese navy could acquire new fleets of the most advanced diesel/electric submarines, minesweepers and minelayers and waves of high-speed torpedo boats.
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