Ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines

Usage examples of minesweeper.

Looking across the anchorage, through the low day, he could see a clutch of small craft, minesweepers, minelayers and two torpedo boats, with a large motherly vessel alongside.

As always, minesweepers swept the channel ahead of them, but, as always, Vallery left nothing to chance.

They tracked him down finally aboard a wooden-hulled minesweeper in Dry Dock Four that was being prepared for decommissioning and layup.

Brun recognized the odd angular shape of a minesweeper among the more ordinary ovoids of the warships.

His only experience of a trawler's wardroom had been in an over-crowded one used more as an office by the Instructor Officers on the instructing minesweepers as they lived ashore, sailing only on day-to-day trips.

Reality was the rolling minesweeper, and the sea, and shabby khakis, and binoculars, and the captain's buzzer.

The OOD and the new exec, a lieutenant junior grade who had previously commanded a yard minesweeper, stood at a respectful distance from the two commanding officers.

Not till Willie saw the yellow-painted horned iron balls bobbing on the foamy blue waves did he truly realize that the fantastic rig of cables and paravanes was good for anything but races against time between the captains of minesweepers.

The minesweeper was therefore a safety factor added to a safety factor.

Among the first to join the postWorld War II Navy, he saw combat while on a minesweeper during the Korean War, winning the Korean Service Medal with six battle stars.

Tons of unnecessary equipment, including a decompression chamber, were loaded aboard an old World War II British minesweeper used for geological survey by an outfit I suspected of operating as the Shagnasty barn Door and Oil Company.

There were, among others, several Dutch minesweepers, a Norwegian corvette, and a French submarine chaser of so dramatic a design that it was difficult to tell, at a first glance, whether she was sinking or not.

More than 200 ships would take part in the operation, and though most were already in the Inland Sea, many of the carriers, battleships, submarines, minesweepers, transports, and supply vessels had to be summoned from missions at sea.