submarine chaser

noun

1. a small patrol vessel, 100–200 feet (30–60 meters) long, designed for military operations against submarines.

Example Sentences

The Coast Guard brought in a much larger floating crane last week to prepare for the weekend removal of the Alert, one of two vessels that sank near the Interstate 5 Bridge and part of a complicated project to lift the former World War II submarine chaser and move it to a shipyard.

From Seattle Times

He graduated from North Carolina with a degree in journalism — “I learned how to write a decent sentence,” he said of the impact that studying journalism had had on his poetry — and then served as a naval officer during World War II, spending much of the war on a submarine chaser in the North Atlantic.

From Seattle Times

He was put on a ship, a submarine chaser, specifically designed for anti-submarine warfare.

From Washington Times

The Rouge began operating in July of 1918 when it produced a World War I submarine chaser called an Eagle Boat.

From Seattle Times

The factory began operating in July of 1918 when it produced a World War I submarine chaser called an Eagle Boat.

From Washington Times