A minelayer and ex-battleship were sunk and three destroyers were wrecked in dry-dock. |
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In completely blacked-out underwater conditions, two divers conducted a tactile search to locate a sunken Iraqi minelayer with her deadly load. |
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In the first attack, they were able to destroy a Rage minelayer, the four defense satellites, and an orbital shipyard. |
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The first ships hit were the cruisers USS Helena and USS Raleigh, the battleships USS Oklahoma and USS Utah, and the minelayer USS Olgala. |
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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. |
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At Glory, the first Remorhaz minelayer was launched, the RSS Eos. |
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Icebreaker, however, is a compound made up of noun object plus agent noun, itself consisting of verb plus agent suffix, as also in the words bridgebuilder, landowner, metalworker, minelayer, and timekeeper. |
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The destroyer Velasco, which could transport a total of 60 mines, was used to lay them, along with the minelayer, Júpiter, that could carry up to 264 of these mines. |
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The anchor box had wheels allowing the mine assembly to be moved along a system of rails aboard the minelayer. |
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As a minelayer exhausted its supply of mines, another minelayer in that column would drop back to the last position to continue the minelaying sequence. |
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