minesweeper

How To Use minesweeper In A Sentence

• More important, he's not likely to forget that it was a naval minesweeper that picked him up out of the North Sea. SAN ANDREAS
• The first Indian missile boat attack occurred on 4-5 December, from the south; it sank a destroyer and a coastal minesweeper.
• Not a large field, it was enough Nerger hoped to cause alarm and tie up valuable warships and minesweepers,
• In the Royal Navy, 116 Ton Class minesweepers were delivered between 1953 and 1960.
• A number were obtained from the Soviet Union, beginning in 1976, including Kashin-class destroyers, Nanuchka missile boats, minesweepers, and a tanker.
• After four days of paddling almost 100 miles upriver, the remaining two canoes reached the German ships and set their mines, flooding four cargo ships and damaging a minesweeper.
• Reagan's massive military buildup had sacrificed unglamorous functions like transport ships "sealift" and minesweepers to pay for high-tech programs like "Star Wars," stealth technology, fighter aircraft, attack subs and cruise missiles. Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part I of II
• SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan - Two minesweepers that arrived here on temporary rotation last summer will make a permanent home in Sasebo, the U.S. Stars and Stripes
• The ACC is based on a catamaran hull with an air cushion between the hulls and has been successfully proven with the Norwegian Oksoy class minehunters and minesweepers which entered service in 1994.
• The estuary and Khawr waterway have been combed by helicopters hauling mine detectors on sledges, and by minesweepers and minehunters, while Chatham's helicopter provided air support.