| 单词 | floating mine |
| 例句 | The water was choked with more rocks and ship wreckage and floating mines. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She thrashed so much we almost collided with a floating mine. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Collision with a floating mine might explain explosion, but seems fanciful, besides highly unlikely as sinking started at stem, which in all likelihood would mean that hull breach was at stem too. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria, plus Georgia, Poland and Ukraine previously discussed clearing floating mines in April 2022. Turkey to work with Romania, Bulgaria against Black Sea mines 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z While the Black Sea is not particularly tidal or with strong currents, floating mines can still move significant distances over a period of time, said Duncan Potts, a former vice admiral with Britain’s Royal Navy. Analysis: The sea mines floating between Ukraine’s grain stocks and the world 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The Russian leader, he said, blames Ukraine for blocking its seaports by laying floating mines to stave off attack. Russia’s grain blockade may require U.S. intervention, general suggests 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z They also set about destroying the bridge by placing floating mines upstream, allowing the current to carry them to the Russians’ pontoons, which proved an effective tactic. A doomed river crossing shows the perils of entrapment in the war’s east 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Ukraine closed its ports in late February amid the fighting, and Russian warships and floating mines have prevented them from reopening. Calls grow for Russia to free up Ukrainian ports for grain exports 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z The ministry gave no details of how it would address the floating mine problem. Turkey to work with Romania, Bulgaria against Black Sea mines 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z All of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports are closed off to the world by a Russian blockade that includes floating mines. Ukraine’s wheat harvest, which feeds the world, can’t leave the country 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Some insurers are also cutting provision of this type of insurance due to the growing perils, which include being hit by projectiles or floating mines, marine insurance sources say. EXCLUSIVE AIG looks at cutting insurance for Russia, Ukraine -sources 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Maritime officials have said supplies are running low onboard the ships, which also face multiple perils including missiles and floating mines. Foreign merchant ship hit by missile in Mariupol, Ukrainian official says 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z He tinkered with electrically actuated floating mines and bought ships for the Confederate navy; one, the CSS Georgia, had a long run raiding Union merchants. Once honored, racist ocean science pioneer now rejected 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z In the incidents, explosives — transported possibly by floating mines and drones — did minor damage and claimed no casualties. Mixed signals from U.S. amid flaring tensions with Iran 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Scott Truver, a Washington-based naval analyst, said his best assessment is that the ships were struck with some sort of floating mine that explodes upon contact. Pompeo crashes Brussels meeting of E.U. diplomats but changes few minds on Iran 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Now, some of the first “floating mines” could offer hope for the world’s most mythologized gemstone, and extend a lifeline to countries like Namibia whose economies depend on diamonds. A new frontier for diamond mining: The ocean 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Every one of those floating mines is illegal. To Apple, From a Deadly and Devastated Slice of Paradise 2014-02-13T21:02:31Z And here he found that the wire, laid along the floor, ended in a metal case, which he guessed to contain a detonating apparatus, like the floating mines employed at sea. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z "For the sake of the world's future we must first use the knife" The Germans have come with floating mines in the open seas, threatening belligerents and neutrals equally. Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2 The Second Twelve Months of War 2011-10-27T02:00:27.020Z They've ceased to throw out floating mines, and have given her directions for a safe course through the anchored minefield, and we're in the same channel. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Qaddafi’s forces continue to shell civilian areas in the city and attempted to block ships by placing floating mines near the harbor entryway, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said yesterday. Qaddafi Says He’ll Stay in Libya as His Forces Step Up Attacks 2011-04-30T03:15:01Z At first it was thought that the enemy's shells had destroyed her, but the real cause of the disaster was a floating mine. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Here is a little picture of what is known as a floating mine. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z These lumber vessels, which are usually loaded with shingles, masts, spars, and boards, have been long the floating mines of Maine. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z Owing to the continual current down the Dardanelles, it occurred to the minds of the German officers serving with the Turkish forces to set adrift numbers of floating mines. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Some managed to jump into a floating mine cart, the network reported. Rescue of 114 at Chinese Coal Mine Called ?Miracle? 2010-04-05T08:36:00Z A quarter of an hour after the Irresistible went down the floating mines claimed another victim. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Never before has any nation strewn the open seas with such floating mines, and their use in this way is against all the laws of war which are observed by civilized nations. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z Except for the comparatively slight risk of encountering a floating mine, we reckoned we were just about as safe in the North Sea as in the South Atlantic. Sea-Hounds Our trust in International Law received a rude and shattering shock from deadly floating mine and racing torpedo. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war At the same moment a dan-buoy splashed overboard to mark the position of the floating mine. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships We can't go on fighting your floating mines and too eager submarines, your brutal soldiers and more brutal bureaucrats. Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work I see Palm Beach notices printed to the effect that sailfish were never heard of there before the Russo-Japanese War, and that the explosions of floating mines drove them from their old haunts. Tales of Fishes The entire sea in that vicinity is, in fact, endangered by floating mines and by torpedoes that have not sunk. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War Steering a careful course in a sea 'foul with floating mines,' the Cork steamship Avocet was attacked by three aeroplanes. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Mines which break adrift, or are laid without moorings of any kind, are called floating mines. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships While transporting troops from Brindisi to Avlona, more than one Italian vessel fell victim to floating mines borne down by this current. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War Toward the Narrows were constructed shore batteries for the launching of torpedoes, as well as for the launching of floating mines. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources May 1, 1916, witnessed the destruction of a British mine sweeper, the Nasturtium, in the Mediterranean along with the armed yacht Aegusa, both said to have been sunk by floating mines. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War It was determined to blow up the cruisers in the harbor by a floating mine or huge torpedo. Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Others are cleaning rifles, which have recently been used with special bullets for sinking floating mines. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships The Germans are continuing the questionable tactics of sowing floating mines in neutral waters to the danger of neutral shipping, as well as of British and French war vessels. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 "Yes; one of the floating mines that the Germans are strewing about in open defiance of all the laws," answered the captain with a bitter voice. The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet It was not the Capella that had come off second-best in an encounter with a floating mine, but another, similar in almost every respect to the lost patrol-boat. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War "Only one of the Huns' floating mines," said the Navigator. The Long Trick The vessel on which we were riding struck something which we took to be a floating mine. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub At the same time we are glad to hear that these floating mines are tied. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 Louis's million and a half have been stretched to hundreds of millions, and the Guardian-Mother has been regarded as a floating mine of wealth. Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing The gunners have sighted a Russian battle plane and are preparing to bring it down A Russian floating mine brought ashore along the River Weichsel. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes From that sub-hold were removed nearly six hundred floating mines of the commonest German pattern. Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers Strange as it may seem to you, the notion of a submarine had never even now occurred to her people, and all were convinced that they had struck a floating mine. Danger! and Other Stories Briefly stated, the plan was to send a fire-ship, or rather a floating mine, into the harbor, to explode before the walls of the fortress, and in the midst of the enemy's cruisers. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 The strong, unchanging current of the Dardanelles, flowing steadily south, carried with it all floating mines dropped in the upper reaches. Winning a Cause World War Stories Two canoes were not fifty yards from the most southerly floating mine. The Captain of the Kansas As we were closing up to them we spotted a floating mine which must have been passed touch-and-go during the night by all those warships and troopships. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I On the night of April 11, 1809, Lord Cochrane steered his floating mine against the gigantic boom that covered the French fleet lying in Aix Roads. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes This vessel was chosen, and with all possible speed was converted into an "infernal," or floating mine. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 Fishing, which was one of the city's chief industries, is now an exceedingly hazardous employment because of submarines and floating mines. Italy at War and the Allies in the West All the latter part of the crossing we were spoken from time to time by British destroyers, which bobbed up from nowhere to warn of floating mines or give directions as to our course. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium How our ships struck mines in an area that was reported clear and swept the previous night I do not know, unless they were floating mines started from the Narrows! Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Then came blackness, punctuated in flame by the explosion of the next floating mine. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes We would thus have the same old dispute as in the late war in regard to floating mines as to which party first resorted to the outlawed practice. From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy It is no uncommon thing for boats crossing the Channel to sight floating mines, and the wonder is that disasters therefrom have been so few. The Audacious War There had been no vessel in sight when the Kennebunk's tender was blown up by the floating mine. Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats We have had disastrous day owing either to floating mines or torpedoes from shore tubes fired at long range. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I He constructed three explosion vessels, floating mines on the largest scale. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes The North Sea is strewn with floating mines which may destroy fishing, freight, or passenger vessels of any nation, neutral or belligerent, which have business on that sea. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe The day after, however, was beautifully fine, and we left Skagen harbour in two motor barges, almost touching a floating mine on the way. Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' The first campaign to force the passage of the Dardanelles by fleet operations alone was suddenly halted on March 19, 1915, when floating mines carried by the swift currents destroyed and sank three battleships. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 The danger from floating mines may have been somewhat underestimated, but it is one that can be met and is most unlikely to form a decisive factor. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 The physical effects of the floating mines and the drifting fire-ships, as a matter of fact, were not very great. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes Nowadays, torpedoes, submarines, and floating mines have rendered blockade infinitely more precarious, and consequently we have to take into account the extreme probability, and indeed, certainty, of hostile cruisers escaping and menacing our oversea supplies. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union While on the beach we saw two floating mines exploded by a Danish gunboat. Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' Other squares of wood, having clusters of short nails driven into them, represented floating mines: and the mimic battleships were made to drag for these, with lines of thread. The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories It certainly could not have penetrated the harbour, for in addition to fixed or floating mines it would have had to run the gauntlet of Togo's fleet and its doom would have been precipitated. The Awakening of China Yet undoubtedly war can be so conducted that foes mutually respect each other; indeed, save for the cowardly abomination of floating mines, this present war has been so conducted at sea. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index On the deck stood a number of the crew disregarding the floating mines that had been engaging their attention. The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet An ingenious Italian in Antwerp devised the destruction of the bridge, and the passage of relief-ships, by blowing up the bridge with a sort of floating mines. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History Now, with every army the correspondent is as popular as a floating mine, as welcome as the man dropping bombs from an air-ship. With the Allies They had only to throw into the strait a quantity of floating mines and the blue river which slipped by the Dardanelles would drag these toward the boats, destroying them with an infernal explosion. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel One, who had been ordered to proceed across the River Save near Sabac, remarked that he was "told afterward" they had struck a floating mine and that seven were killed and thirteen wounded. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Within two hundred yards of the Assyrian a floating mine had destroyed a patrol boat. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Perhaps you read in the newspapers that the Norwhal struck a floating mine, and went down with a heavy loss of life. T. Haviland Hicks Senior Three successive squadrons of British and French ships were sent up the Straits, but the Turks had only waited till the channel was full of vessels to release their floating mines and land- torpedoes. A Short History of the Great War It's dangerous crossing, with all those submarines and floating mines. We Can't Have Everything This explains the astounding fact that during Admiral Togo's five dashes, some of them lasting thirty-six hours, all that he lost from torpedoes and mines was one ship, the Hatsuse, which struck a floating mine. The Secrets of the German War Office Shall he remain unprejudiced—a floating mine, ready to explode at any accidental contact? A Handbook of Ethical Theory For the object that Frank held in his hand was a small melinite floating mine! The Boy Allies under Two Flags The former effected nothing except sowing of some floating mines which subsequently sank British submarine and two fishing-smacks, while one of the participating cruisers, the Yorck, struck a German mine and sank on entering Wilhelmshaven. A Short History of the Great War Their officers, probably thinking his remarks referred to floating mines, ran eagerly to the side. Notes of a War Correspondent It is, if you will, a monster camouflaged floating mine in the troubled sea of world peace, which the forces of reconstruction have left unswept. The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war Beyond the rest of the fleet the Marie Theresa was forced to go more slowly, feeling her way cautiously to avoid being blown up by one of the many floating mines. The Boy Allies under Two Flags "Or be blown up by a floating mine," said Frank. The Boy Allies under Two Flags |
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