The East Anglian drifters carry on their operations at different seasons of the year from Shetland in the north (for herrings) to Newlyn in the west (for mackerel).
In retiring the Germans threw out mines promiscuously and the British submarine D 5 and two steam drifters were sunk.
Behind them, in the Straits, there plied industriously a great fleet of drifters and mine-sweepers, no longer under fire, and clearing a way through the minefields for the fleet that was to occupy the Sea of Marmora.
There is at least one instance of a lightship having a commanding, if uncomfortable, station in an action between our drifters and a large enemy submarine.
In ten minutes the drifters had actually pushed her ashore on the Goodwin Sands--the Paramount had closed to 30 yards.
Lieutenant-Commander Frederick Robinson, of the Gipsy, gave the signal to cease fire, and the five drifters set to work to save their drowning enemies.
But their greatest honour was already their own--they had commanded in victorious action his Majesty's armed drifters the Present Help, the Paramount, and the Majesty.
The removal of the booms and the release of the boom defence drifters and trawlers was completed before the end of 1919.
Two drifters which were near by were accordingly ordered close to the "Bayern" for this purpose, and we proceeded in the same direction, when the photographs on pp.
The trawlers and drifters manned by the men who used to fish with these vessels before the war compose the greater portion of the Harwich auxiliary force.
These drifters are of lighter draught than the trawlers, and so can be employed in shallower waters.
These drifters are for the most part manned by hardy Scotch fishermen, who, like the East Coast trawler men, took to their new work as a duck takes to water.
Thus, on one occasion in 1917 some Harwich drifters sailed to a certain destination in the North Sea, and after a week's work in laying and watching their nets destroyed three "U" boats.
Take, for example, that grimly humorous invention the indicator net, to lay which was one of the duties of the drifters of the Harwich Force.
A great deal of useful work was done by the Harwich drifters in evolving the best method of working the indicator net, and their system was eventually adopted as standard by the Admiralty.
Now the trawlers and drifters carry six-pounders, and in some instances twelve-pounders.
Like the trawlers, the drifters carry guns and depth charges.
Swimmers and Drifters The animals of the open sea are conveniently divided into the active swimmers (Nekton) and the more passive drifters (Plankton).
On another occasion in the same month a division of drifters hunted a submarine for five hours.
The introduction of steam drifters has made the shares complicated in the extreme.
Why, only last week one of our Haddisport drifters went out to the herring fishing with a splash of red paint on her starboard bow.
Sweeping the seas for explosive mines indiscriminately laid by the enemy for the destruction of any ship which might run up against them, was not the only work in which the British steam trawlers and drifters were engaged.
Fleet mail ship, where we waited until one by one my fellow-travellers were taken off by various odd craft—varying from drifters to picket-boats—which conveyed them to their respective ships.
Several drifters are alongside, and these are groaning and creaking under the impact of heavy seas.
A mile closer, however, it appeared to be as plain as day that she was some ancient fishing boat, but bluffer of bow and broader of beam than the oldest of trawlers or drifters in the service.
Countless drifters and launches shuttled in and out through the evenly lined warships.
Even the method in the apparent madness with which the swarms of supply ships, colliers, oilers, trawlers, and drifters were scattered about was discernible.
Well, the drifters and trawlers were feeling it then, And the sea chuckled deep as it washed to and fro On the hulls of the battleships up in the Flow.
The good wishes of the Board of Admiralty and the Royal Navy will follow the armed yachts, trawlers, drifters and motor-boats after they have hauled down the colours they flew as His Majesty's Auxiliary Patrol Vessels.
Very still was the sea, and quiet, except where the other drifterswere shooting their nets.
Little punts were detaching themselves from the larger drifters and flitting about on the sea like slow-winged moon-butterflies.
Darkness, drawing in over the sea, hid the drifters from sight.
Most of the boats are up over--lying on the sea wall--but a few days ago many busy blue men slid the big brown drifters down their shoots to the beach.
We chose our berth among the other drifters that were on the ground.
I could see the bobbing lights of the other drifters to westward, and the glint of the Seacombe lamps on the water.
Later on, however, we heard that the Plymouth drifters had been out after an autumn shoal of mackerel, had caught some thousands and had made good prices.
In recent years, owing to bad prices and seasons and general lack of encouragement, or even of fair opportunity, the number of sea-going drifters at Seacombe has decreased by two-thirds.
Out towards Tenedos and over against the Asiatic shore the usual trawlers and drifters and a couple of destroyers patrolled for submarines.
The drifters were men who had been all over the worlds of the Edge, who had spent years watching the new planets opened for colonization and exploitation, but had never got their own piece.
The roustabouts, the lowdrifters of the spaceways .
No danger had been proven yet, but that wouldn't stop Manning--nor thedrifters he'd been buying in the town.
That ship with the driftersround her, flying the Commander-in-Chief's flag.
The men onboard a line of rusty drifters leaned over the sides of their plunging craft and waved as the jaws of their baleful traps opened to let them pass through.
Here come all the drifterswith mails and ratings for the Fleet.
We began from an East Coast fishing port, working with crazy drifters manned by East Coast fishermen.
We had a couple of score of trawlers and drifters and four hundred simple fishermen to cram the fear of the Lord into.
An hour later came the message that six drifters were to be cleared of all their war appliances and were to be given stretchers, cots, slings and other appliances for the carriage of wounded.
Flotillas of trawlers and drifters for the hard and monotonous routine sweeping on the important coastal trade routes.
The drifters were divided into patrol units, boom defence flotillas and under-water or mine-net units.
Columns of smoke from the short funnels of destroyers, trawlers and drifters showed up black against the indigo void, and ever and anon hoarse voices shouted orders, unintelligible from the distance.
Still the drifters held their course in the now pall-like blackness, and other bombs splashed into the water astern, to explode with a dull vibration a few seconds after they had sunk from the surface.
The drifters came there and stopped, lingered a while to live by their wits in a country where living after a fashion has always been marvellously cheap.
On this square the drifters lay all day long and told strange yams.
An Austrian naval force sinks 14 British drifters in the Adriatic and escapes to harbour.
The German submarine U48 is destroyed by British drifters on the Goodwin Sands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drifters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
