minelayer
- n ship equipped for laying marine mines
- Secretary Wilbur assigned a minelayer, a submarine tender and three cruisers to transport the men; an oiler and an ammunition ship to carry their supplies.
- A bill to increase the French Navy by one cruiser, three destroyers, four torpedo boats, seven first-class submarines, two mine-laying sumbarines, one minelayer and and two .
- To Noel DavisMormon, cowpuncher, high in his class at Annapolis, intrepid minelayer and minesweeper in the North Sea, Harvard law student, with a pretty wife and a little son .