contact mine in a sentence

Examples

1. On 16 April 1916 while on G Patrol off the mouth of the Dardanelles, she struck a contact mine off Gallipoli.
2. Two sets of rails ran along the pressure hull inside this structure, capable of accommodating 100 standard Type B contact mines.
3. Additional contact mines were added, forcing incoming vessels to sail into a channel alongside St Mawes, illuminated with electric search lights.
4. The engine was stopped, and the propeller was cleared of the " buoy ", which turned out to be a contact mine.
5. However, the only mines the class ever laid were 37 contact mines that " Porkkala " laid northwest of Tuppura on 30 August 1941.
6. On 9 September 1943, HMS " Abercrombie " was supporting the Allied landings near Salerno ( Operation Avalanche ), when she was damaged by a contact mine.
7. In addition, NEVZ manufactures mining equipment for open-pit mining, metallurgical enterprises-industrial locomotives DC new generation of induction motor drive, for coal mines-contact mine locomotives, mine cargo trucks.
8. The ranges increased to,, and, respectively . " Admiral Hipper " also carried 96 EMC mines; these mines were contact mines and had a 300 kg explosive charge.
9. Mobile Bay was littered with torpedoes ( during the Civil War a device similar to a contact mine ) and Jackson disarmed a number of these which threatened Union vessels.
10. The torpedoes, similar to present-day contact mines, were said by the Secretary of the Navy in 1865 " to have cost the Union more vessels than all other causes combined ."