minesweeper

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The Impeccable is a minesweeper, and reportedly used water canon to force one of the Chinese ships away that was attempting

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  1. noun A ship equipped for detecting, destroying, removing, or neutralizing explosive marine mines.

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  • In addition to the DERs, minesweepers—both the MSO and the coastal minesweeper (MSC)—were frequent participants in the Market Time patrols. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • In that month, a VNN minesweeper was sunk by a command-detonated mine in the Rung Sat; Viet Cong soldiers emerged from the jungle and machine-gunned the survivors. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • On 15 February an American minesweeper was sunk by a mine on the Long Tau River. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • 'Just what else can that phone of yours do It can play solitaire and minesweeper,' replied Artemis innocently. —  ARTEMIS FOWL is a child prodigy from Ireland who has dedicated his brilliant mind to criminal activities
  • Zeppelins would sometimes land on the sea surface next to a minesweeper, bring aboard an officer and show him the lay of the mines. —  Scientific Blogging
 

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