Mine hunters search the water for mines with sonar devices.

The ships were designed as coastal mine hunters.

The Reagan Administration moved to correct the problem with a program to build 31 mine hunters and minesweepers.

Since then, women have joined crews even on ships once considered too small for mixed crews, most recently the Navy's mine hunters.

She was the 11th ship of the 12 Osprey-class coastal mine hunters, which are named for birds of prey.

Northern Ireland patrol fleet of three reconfigured Hunt class mine hunters to be decommissioned by April 2007.

The Type 332 Frankenthal class mine hunter is a class of German mine hunters.

Osprey class are the world's largest mine hunters to be constructed entirely of fiberglass and designed to survive the shock of underwater explosions.

These small (53 m) fibreglass vessels are single role mine hunters (SRMH) rather than minesweepers.

This is especially true for minesweepers and mine hunters that work in minefields, where a minimal signature outweighs the need for armour and speed.

The Oksøy-class mine hunters are a class of vessels of the Royal Norwegian Navy active since the mid-1990s.

The British Navy has a sizable and up-to-date minesweeping force - 17 minesweepers and 25 mine hunters, vessels that use sonar to locate mines.

USS Kingfisher (MHC-56) was the sixth ship of Osprey-class coastal mine hunters.

USS Cormorant (MHC-57) is the seventh ship of Osprey class coastal mine hunters.

USS Shrike (MHC-62) is the twelfth and last ship of Osprey-class coastal mine hunters.

Slightly modified Frankenthal class mine hunters are also operated by the Turkish Navy, where they are referred to as the A Class.

Notes: The listed commission dates are from their original commission as Type 343 boats since they were not formally recommissoned after their upgrade to Type 333 mine hunters.

Meanwhile, Royal Navy officials said British mine hunters had completed operations around the port of Fujaira on the Gulf of Oman, just outside the Persian Gulf.

Mine Hunter Program Canceled Last year, the Navy canceled a separate program to build 17 coastal mine hunters, and is now arranging to buy ships designed in Italy instead.

SNMCMG2 normally comprises eight mine hunters or mine sweepers and a support ship from Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States.

Also during the war years the enterprise built large mine hunters, destroyers, diesel-electric submarines, ferries, lighters, floating repair barges, while repairing both Northern Fleet surface ships as well as vessels delivering supplies via the Arctic Convoys.

During the course of the war, one cruiser, four destroyers, one mine layer, one torpedo boat, two submarines and some smaller vessels (gunboats, mine hunters etc.) were sunk; in total, twenty-six ships were lost, mostly in September 1939.

The category does not include aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, and mine hunters, as these generally do not use on board weapons system (i.e. aircraft carriers generally only attack with their aircraft, and mine hunters are not primarily combat vessels).