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How to use minesweeper in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word minesweeper? Here are some examples.

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A Royal Navy frigate or minesweeper could be on station as well with twenty-four hours' notification.
The wreck in question was discovered by a Navy minesweeper in 1995 and identified as the AHS following local advice.
The convoy was protected by three destroyers, a minesweeper, two corvettes and a trawler as it left Scotland.
At sea, he served in a battleship, an aircraft carrier, in cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and a minesweeper.
Cutting the wreck of minesweeper 622 and preparation to bring out the unit in Port Wojenny Hel at West Waterside.
They have also refused to allow an American minesweeper to pay a routine visit to Hong Kong.
In July 1937, Rickover was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander and became the commander of the minesweeper, Finch, an old ship well past its prime.
The Lavallee II was built in 1942 as an American wooden minesweeper, but was later equipped as a fishing vessel.
On 17 March 1945 the minesweeper Guysborough was sunk near Halifax, taking 44 of its 70 crew members to their deaths.
The Viscaya Defence Board mobilized a pair of trawlers, the Danak Ondo and the Marce, to act as a minesweeper.
The two Allied cruisers were sunk, while a Japanese minesweeper and a transport vessel were sunk by friendly fire.
Officials in the Union Army attempted to create the first minesweeper but were plagued by flawed designs and abandoned the project.
The minesweeper will have to be lifted out, according to the Navy.
In 1950 he converted a British minesweeper into the Calypso, an oceanographic research ship, aboard which he and his crew carried out numerous expeditions.
At about 6 00 pm a message was brought to the captain warning that a minesweeper convoy was headed their way, prompting him to activate the ship's navigation lights to prevent a collision.
Fox Hunting is a game that resembles the old minesweeper for Windows.
The hamlet of Quatsino, B. C., near the northern tip of Vancouver Island, has fewer than 100 people, yet there was a minesweeper called HMCS Quatsino.
Zeppelins would sometimes land on the sea surface next to a minesweeper, bring aboard an officer and show him the lay of the mines.
Minesweepers protect themselves with an oropesa or paravane instead of a second minesweeper.
A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to engage in minesweeping.
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It may be apropos to say here that the smaller class of minesweeper is usually blown to pieces if she touches a mine.
A few seconds later another bomb fell close to a minesweeper and a fragment gashed the decks but did not penetrate them.
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