What is "paravanes"

Usage examples of "paravanes".

Willie at once returned to the after deckhouse, partly to learn what he could about hauling in paravanes, but mainly to enjoy the cursing of the sailors.

The minesweep detail worked in a fever, racing against time to get the two paravanes aboard.

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.

Boat stove in and a couple of paravanes gone and some topside stuff buck-led and smashed.

The paravanes did dive below the level of anchored mines and kite there on an even keel.

At 0620 he streamed paravanes, the slender, torpedo-shaped bodies which angled out from the bows, one on either side, on special paravane wire.

In theory, the wires connecting mines to their moorings on the floor of the sea were deflected away from the ship, guided out to the paravanes themselves and severed by cutters: the mines would then float to the top to be exploded or sunk by small arms.