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1838 A. J. Dalrymple Let. 24 Mar. in Brit. & Foreign State Papers, 1840–1 (1857) XXIX. 1237 The writer..suggests some regulation..to prevent the French trawl fishers interfering with our net drifters.

1919 R. Bacon Dover Patrol 1915–17 I. vi. 157 In addition to the above, the 10th, 11th, and 12th Divisions of net-drifters anchored parallel to the West Hinder and shot their nets.

1987 P. G. Halpern Naval War in Mediterranean 1914–18 viii. 278 By then the British net drifters based on Brindisi had been continuously at work since September 1915, patrolling the Straits of Otranto and assisting in the evacuation of the Serbian army.

2017 J. Dann Maud Coleno's Daughter xiii. 92 In the summer of August 1917 another Admiralty-requisitioned net drifter the Oceans Gift II was destroyed in an accidental fire off Happisburgh.