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They use minelayers, and they also use a body of men who operate from the shore.
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For that reason alone she is unsuitable as aminelayer.
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She carried mines—she was therefore also aminelayer.
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It applies to minelayers, gunboats, survey ships and other craft.
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Among other things, they are commonly used by those on the coast and headlands for the purpose of finding out if there be aminelayeroperating at night.
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At the last moment, the officers decided that the sub may be aminelayer, and the rudder was turned hard to avoid the collision.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Her design made her suitable for conversion to aminelayer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This may be why she was converted to aminelayerthe following year.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theminelayerbriefly lost contact, but used radar-controlled fire against the remaining boats and fired star shells to ferret them out.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Designed as aminelayer, she carried 400 mines.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Coastal batteries were manned and a small squadron of oneminelayerand a few gunboats was deployed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The termminelayerapplied vessels deploying both defensive and offensive mine barrages and large scale sea mining.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She had eight 53.3cm in torpedo tubes and, when fitted as aminelayer, could carry 76 mines.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She operated as aminelayer, and undertook seven patrols in this role.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As aminelayerexhausted its supply of mines, anotherminelayerin that column would drop back to the last position to continue the minelaying sequence.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That battleship was in drydock and its position was occupied by the light cruiser and theminelayer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It also damaged or sank three cruisers, three destroyers, oneminelayer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She does not appear to have been much used in that role and was converted to aminelayerin 1937.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The torpedo's explosion broke through the minelayer's port bilge amidships, and she rapidly took on water.
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