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Already under way are orders for 72 Tornados, 30 Hawk advanced trainers, three minesweepers and other major defence construction projects.
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Being mostly new, they were exceedingly useful to the Navy, serving as minesweepers and coastal patrol vessels.
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His ship was turned into a minesweeper in the war, and he went down with her off the east coast.
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How long ago the war seemed - the minesweeper wending its slow way over the dusky sea.
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I have a query about the fibreglass minesweepers.
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Orthodox wooden construction is still being used today for fishing vessels, minesweepers and yachts of up to four or five hundred tons.
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Sailors from the hunter class minesweeper are due to visit Hurworth from March 7 to 9 while their ship is docked at Hartlepool.
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The Hunter minesweeper is due to dock in Hartlepool on March 6 prior to a five-day programme of activities in Hurworth.