mine-sweeper

He drove a ship, albeit a mine-sweeper, for a while.

CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2003 2003

However, despite the great danger, unseen and unheard until all is over, these mine-sweeper men guide their vessels out daybreak after daybreak, with the same old carefree air, to perform their allotted task in this war.

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We were spotted by a mine-sweeper, and she raced to the rescue.

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There are days when a mine-sweeper captain, who is continually running the gauntlet of death, reckons that he has been fortunate.

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If a trawler strikes a mine she usually counts on saying good-bye to herself and 80 per cent. of her crew, and the other type of mine-sweeper is lucky if she gets off with a loss of less than 40 per cent.

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In spite of the watch he and his first mate kept on this particular occasion, he found time to give me his opinion on certain things interesting to the men who go down to the sea in ships, and also an idea of what it means to be in command of a mine-sweeper.

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Of special interest is the talk with the captain of a mine-sweeper while he is on the bridge of his vessel.

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A sailor semaphored with his arms, and the commander of the mine-sweeper sent a message back, and the submarine passed slowly on her way.

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Twenty minutes after the mine had been exploded a great rumble was heard way out at sea, and soon it was ascertained by the captain of the mine-sweeper that

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An instant later all the small craft were ready to speed to their respective berths in their turns, and it was not so very long before the mine-sweeper was tied to her part of the dock.

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