Crossword clues for minesweeping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
minesweeping \minesweeping\ n. 1. the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines.
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) The detection and safe disposal of mines
WordNet
n. the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines
Wikipedia
Minesweeping is the practice of the removal of explosive naval mines, usually by a specially designed ship called a minesweeper using various measures to either capture or detonate the mines, but sometimes also with an aircraft made for that purpose. Minesweeping has been practiced since the advent of naval mining in 1855 in the Crimean War. The first minesweepers date to that war and consisted of British rowboats trailing grapnels to snag the mines.
Usage examples of "minesweeping".
A mess of scraps of paper, notebooks, personnel forms, promotions, reassignments, casualties - the uncollated material from the office of the Department of Minesweeping filed under MILFORD HAVEN in faded type on a grubby gummed label on the front of the box-file.
Its mission was to cover a massive minesweeping operation under way in the East China Sea.
The three had often talked about minesweeping and agreed it was the worst seagoing horror the Navy had to offer.
Upon conversion for minesweeping one of its four stacks and a boiler had been removed to make room for more fuel tanks, thus increasing the cruising radius.
The weather was good, and with the novelty of the different minesweeping gadgets, electric, moored, and acoustic, for entertainment, Willie found himself enjoying the trip as an amused spectator.
But every novelty, even a deadly novelty like minesweeping, gets its bloom rubbed off quickly and settles into a routine.
He had studied up his minesweeping, all the same, but he had really thought the manual was just another useless book in the safe, like the Dutch and French codes.
Bryn Thomas, a former minesweeping officer, for his invaluable assistance during the writing of this book.
He was being delivered back to Drummond and to his home in County Cork by the most convenient route - as part of a minesweeping flotilla.
Director of Minesweeping as soon as he returned to London from the house outside Southampton.
If there are as many as you suggest engaged in minesweeping duties, then they are sweeping to some very exact, and vitally important, purpose.
The lack of black-out so different from England, and - most recently - the dark, wet docks of Milford Haven as the minesweeping flotilla had forlornly set sail.
He knew just how the float should move through the water, and he had taken to the expertise of minesweeping gladly and enthusiastically after the deadening years of desk-bound intelligence work.
A commander from the office of the Director of Minesweeping was deputizing for his chief, and Walsingham had managed to persuade a lieutenant-commander from the Anti-Submarine Warfare Division of the Admiralty to delay his date with an actress.
But a British minesweeping flotilla left Milford Haven - in Pembrokeshire - under sealed orders at just about the right time.