| More than 6,000 ships, warships, merchantmen, landing craft and barges, sailed across the channel in marked lanes cleared by minesweepers. |
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| Hmas Bathurst was the lead ship of a class of Australian designed and built minesweepers, more commonly known as corvettes. |
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| Her path had been cleared by six British and four American minesweepers and minehunters, and teams of British, American and Australian divers. |
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| The plane, discovered off the west coast near Oban by Royal Navy minesweepers, is a world war two Catalina. |
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| The two minesweepers became the first two ships of the Fijian Navy and were recommissioned as HMFS Kiro and HMFS Kula. |
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| He joined the Royal Navy when he left school, and during the second world war he served on minesweepers. |
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| These were to include a close escort of six destroyers, four corvettes, three minesweepers, four armed trawlers and two ack-ack ships. |
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| The objective was to silence the forts so that minesweepers could clear the minefields to allow the fleet to force the Dardanelles and lay siege to Constantinople. |
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| The Hameln Class minesweepers and Frankenthal Class minehunters have the same basic ship design and engineering systems but have different mission specific equipment suites. |
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| A number were obtained from the Soviet Union, beginning in 1976, including Kashin-class destroyers, Nanuchka missile boats, minesweepers, and a tanker. |
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| Royal Navy minesweepers have been competing for the award of excellence since the 1970s when it was inaugurated by the original sponsors, Thomson Marconi Sonar Ltd. |
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| The Royal Navy committed four minesweepers to the operation. |
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| From their conning towers, just above sea level, naval officers flash lights to guide the flotillas of minesweepers clearing passages toward the beaches. |
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| The Channel subsequently became the stage for an intensive coastal war, featuring submarines, minesweepers, and Fast Attack Craft. |
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| Both Allied and Axis countries made heavy use of minesweepers throughout the war. |
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| In the Crimean War, minesweepers consisted of British rowboats trailing grapnels to snag the mines. |
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| The minesweepers were sometimes able to continue sweeping, but the trawlers were less durable. |
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| By the end of the War, naval mine technology had grown beyond the ability of minesweepers to detect and remove. |
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| Twenty Admiralty trawlers with American crews, 16 more Lapwing class minesweepers, and another repair ship Panther were assigned to his command. |
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| This category includes minesweepers, subchasers, motor torpedo boats, patrol craft, motor gunboats. |
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| In service since 1982 are the RAN's two 520-ton auxiliary minesweepers Bandicoot and Wallaroo, which also deploy reconfigurable permanent-magnet influence sweeps. |
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| The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. |
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| Countermining sequences initiated by destruction of a swept mine causing detonation of an undetected mine closer to one of the minesweepers were another source of damage. |
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| Dedicated minesweepers, however, only appear in the historical record several centuries later, to the Crimean War, where they were deployed by the British. |
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| These reserve Trawler Section fishermen and their trawlers were activated, supplied with mine gear, rifles, uniforms and pay as the first minesweepers. |
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| This is especially true for minesweepers and mine hunters that work in minefields, where a minimal signature outweighs the need for armour and speed. |
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| Minesweepers began clearing channels for the invasion fleet shortly after midnight and finished just after dawn without encountering the enemy. |
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| Minesweepers began clearing lanes on the evening of 5 June, and a thousand bombers left before dawn to attack the coastal defences. |
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| Minesweepers protect themselves with an oropesa or paravane instead of a second minesweeper. |
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| Combatant nations quickly adapted ships to the task of minesweeping, including Australia's 35 civilian ships that became Auxiliary Minesweepers. |
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