minesweeper
minesweeper
Definition
mine·sweeper (mīn′swēp′ər)
noun
a naval vessel specially designed and equipped for destroying enemy mines at sea
minesweeper
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- build: HMS Bangor was a " Bangor Class " minesweeper built at Govan by Harland & Wolff.
- include: The three Classes: Class A: comprised the Navy, including minesweepers and dockyard officials, and troops at the Front in France.
- command: He was then sent to command the minesweepers based at Singapore for part of 1946.
- base: He was then sent to command the minesweepers based at Singapore for part of 1946.
- sink: Sank the minesweepers, Behrens and C Jansen in the Kattegat, and possibly damaged a merchant vessel of 7,500 tons in the Skagerrak.
- have: I've had those Minesweeper cheats longer than this website's been around!
Adjective modifier
- inshore: It was supplied in large numbers to the Royal Navy as a propulsion engine for inshore minesweepers.
- coastal: PHOTO - Ron Bullock Two Kenya Naval patrol craft lead three Royal Navy coastal minesweepers into Mombasa.
- German: Despite the late stage of the war, German minesweepers and raiding parties sortied from the Channel Islands and boldly attacked the port.
- wooden: I thought that modern mines, along with advanced detection and hull technologies would have made the wooden minesweeper obsolete by now.
- small: Well, one of the ships I went on was the H.M.S. Derby, which was a small minesweeper, a coal ship.
- human: He also described how civilian porters were forced to act as human minesweepers, triggering landmines with their own bodies.
Modifies a noun
- game: Solving the minesweeper game that you have on your computer.
- FY: August 30 1938 Requisitioned by RN as minesweeper No. FY 567 and, in 1943, she was used as a boom defense vessel.
Noun used with modifier
- fleet: As the convoy got closer to Malta another cruiser, nine destroyers, four fleet minesweepers and six minesweeping launches joined the escorting ships.
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