Before this narrow passage lies a minefield so thick that it defied the attempt of the fleet of the Allied Powers to force a passage through the Dardanelles to Constantinople.
An attempt to dredge the minefield with trawlers was defeated by hidden batteries on the very heights for which the Anzacs were fighting, and also by the guns of the forts at the Narrows.
Not only was the minefield that had been laid down when the North Sea was first closed continually added to, but other barrages were always being thought out and improved as necessity demanded.
He may well have been too busy to note, for there were patrols all around him, a minefield of curious design and undefined area somewhere in front, and steam trawlers vigorously sweeping for him astern and ahead.
She dived under the minefield that guarded the Straits, and when she rose at dawn in the narrowest part of the channel, which is about one mile and a half across, all the forts fired at her.
On the front of the last-named Division only one tank succeeded in crossing the tunnel, the others running foul of an old British minefieldas described in Chapter XXXV.
The Admiralty announced that a minefield for defensive purposes had been laid in the North Sea.
On the day the Premier spoke at Cardiff the Admiralty announced that the German mine-laying and submarine activities had constrained Great Britain to establish a minefield in the North Sea south of the German field (which extended to lat.
This new minefield extended the danger area a line drawn from the mouth of the Eastern Scheldt to the Thames.
Choosing the most favourable time of tide, he ordered all vessels to weigh anchor and steam out of the minefield on a course at right angles to it.
Our submarines used to patrol regularly along Piccadilly Circus to look out for and attack enemy ships, and at intervals went shorewards through the minefield in order to reconnoitre.
The discovery of a submarine minefield between North Cape and Cape Maria van Diemen was another incident, which was followed by fatal results.
He enlarged the minefield north of Heligoland, and gathered there a large force of submarines.
Then she passed through the minefield on her homeward way; but, on sighting another Turkish transport, returned, and managed to torpedo it.
Returning that evening, she safely negotiated the minefield at 130 feet depth and proceeded west and north to look at Zerovia Island, near the locality where she had sunk the transport.
Eastern politicians and Eastern intellectuals often hang themselves by their own verbose Gordic knots, having stumbled through a minefield of logical fallacies and endured self inflicted inconsistencies.
Until theminefield was located and destroyed it was unsafe for any shipping to proceed to or from Yarmouth Roads.
In two hours, the trawlers having swept the whole extent of the Would, the minefield was reported to be destroyed.
The Calder, still standing by, had missed the northern limit of the German minefield by a few yards.
The very large number of patrol craft that would be needed to force submarines to dive into that portion of the minefield which was safe for surface vessels and the difficulty of maintaining them at sea in bad North Sea weather.
If ships are sailing singly a minefield will in all probability sink only one vessel--the first ship entering it.
More were laid in the Bight during October, November and December, and the remainder, as they were produced, were prepared for laying in the new minefield in the Straits of Dover.
Under such conditions the position of the minefieldwould be known to the enemy.
In this respect German and British methods may be contrasted: We never laid a minefield which could possibly have been dangerous to neutrals without issuing a warning stating that a certain area (which included the minefield) was dangerous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minefield" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
