Larger numbers of older and less capable minesweepers were mainly used in riverine operations.

He was agreeably surprised at the old minesweeper's brisk speed.

Seventy or eighty people, most of them women, were crowded on Pier 91 when the old minesweeper drew near.

A long line of attack boats emerged from the clusters around the APA and headed for the old minesweeper.

Merely from the backwash of the storm, the old minesweeper and its crew had taken a miserable beating.

But slowly, slowly, the old minesweeper labored back to port again.

The men on the old minesweeper were used to the idea, now, that they were in a typhoon.

The old minesweeper rolled up a little from the surface of the water.

So again the old minesweeper swung at anchor in the bay, accumulating rust and barnacles.

On 31 July 1947 she sank the old minesweeper Chewink in a torpedo experiment.