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Sentence Examples Therefore, the whole armada would be spear headed by a flotilla of 287 mine sweepers that would clear the way for the ships behind them. In a fishing harbour near Bari in southern Italy, a flotilla of small boats rides low in the sea, weighed down by festival-goers. The cruisers swung around the southern pole and nosed upward toward the enemy flotilla, simultaneously disgorging volleys of missiles. The European Union said yesterday that a flotilla will begin anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia next week. A flotilla of more than 50 boats, yachts and lifeboats surrounded the magnificent ship as it sailed majestically into its home port. The views are spectacular, augmented by a flotilla of yachts whose owners favour the location as an essential stopover on the Firth of Clyde. The craft will join a flotilla of Royal Navy ships and nearly one-quarter of the British Army. The flotilla must have been an impressive sight as it sailed up the Thames to the watergate at Westminster palace. But as word got round, the modest flotilla grew into an armada that will set sail from Holyhead tomorrow morning. Hardly had we secreted ourselves when we spied a flotilla of a Roman expeditionary force sailing hard upstream. Swans were seen nesting and a dabchick had a flotilla of chicks behind her. The U.S. armada at Culebra was swelled by a flotilla of support vessels, including colliers and torpedo boats. The almost constant vision of a flotilla of ships and boats on Sydney Harbour, shown ad nauseam on Foxtel today, proves that point. You are unlikely to see him but can tell when he is in residence by the flotilla of navy ships patrolling just offshore. We had a terrific send off with bands playing and a flotilla around the ship. Weeks later on June 4, the flotilla of ships put to sea sailed but rough weather forced Allied commanders to abandon the trip. To put the record straight, the UK nuclear submarine flotilla has a nuclear safety record second to none. Five years before Roswell, she was seeing close up a flotilla of flying saucers. Cheered on by a flotilla of 30 modern boats, they set sail across the Atlantic on a voyage expected to last up to five months. The Quays welcomed two Galway Hooker sailing boats and a flotilla of sailing vessels were docked at Albert Basin. Show More Sentences As senior medical officer he had great difficulty certifying the captain of another ship in the flotilla when the stress proved too much for him. The planned nuclear shipment is being opposed by nations along its route, and could be greeted by a flotilla of protest boats in the Irish Sea. A flotilla of between twenty and thirty boats arrived in the town on Sunday and will stay until May 22 for a commemorative boatmen's reunion. Accompanied by a flotilla of small boats, he swam a powerful crawl across to Scarba. Both carriers have now left the UK to join the growing flotilla of warships and auxiliaries heading for a rendezvous in the Mediterranean. Sophisticated and powerful neutrino scanners had tracked the hyperspatial movements of the flotilla long before they reached their ultimate destination. I spoke to you last year about breaking up the Nestlé supertanker into a flotilla of fast ships. We work until nearly midnight filleting the fish and giving it away in great slabs to the 200 strong flotilla of visiting yachts that crowd the marina in summer. They are always escorted by an extensive flotilla of other ships. Once at sea, the ship will join a flotilla of military vessels that played a part in the landings in a ceremonial crossing of the Channel before berthing at Caen. Without the heroic efforts of locals who turned out in a flotilla of tiny boats to ferry passengers ashore, the loss of life could have been catastrophic. Every morning, a flotilla of day boats leaves port in a race to be first to the prime sites around the Strait of Tiran, to the north, or Ras Mohammed, to the south. The burning ship soon attracted the attention of other vessels and a flotilla of fishing vessels, pleasure cruisers and jet skis turned up to help. The landing flotilla had to sail by the Gulf of Biscayne, teeming with U-boats, before entering the Mediterranean. It comprised a British division of two brigades, an Egyptian division of four brigades, and mounted troops, artillery, engineers, and a flotilla. The ships cast anchor waiting for the rest of the flotilla to arrive at the meeting point. A flotilla of low craft chuff from left to right, man and wife hunched at the stern. The United States announced plans two weeks ago for a multinational anti-piracy coalition, and a flotilla from the European Union began patrols in the gulf last month. Two pictures from the incredible French Games Day 2007 diorama, where a Dwarven harbor is assaulted by an Orc and Goblin flotilla. On the return trip the rest of the American flotilla destroyed the only British ship on Lake Huron, the schooner Nancy. Show More Sentences Nobody noticed anything, but during the evening the commander of the flotilla received remonstrances from Moscow. But since then a flotilla of respectable publications, from the New Yorker to Le Monde, have jumped on the bandwagon. To make that perfectly clear, it sent a flotilla of ships, which Vietnam says included armed vessels. The repair crew worked all day and by darkness the flotilla was ready for action. In recent weeks we witnessed the attempt to bring a flotilla of decrepit decommissioned US warships through EU waters. For a small fishing wharf like Mbour, it seems that the flotilla is in excess. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will travel in the Royal Barge which will form the centrepiece of the flotilla. The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles. But I was oddly pleased when I heard that 500 people were treated for hypothermia after the flotilla. I finished my tour on the opposite side of Punda from the fort, where a flotilla of sailing boats was moored up on a small waterway off the main harbour. The flotilla of 58 Little Ships made a trouble-free crossing of the busy traffic separation lanes, as merchantmen gave way or altered course as a mark of respect. They will be joined later this week by 800 Royal Marines on the new helicopter assault ship Ocean, which has set sail with a flotilla of three support ships and a frigate. Leaving their home ports in April 2008, the three ships met in the Caribbean Sea for an exercise and then proceed as a flotilla to the Arabian Sea via Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. Walking by the canal in Brindley Place recently, I passed a stately flotilla of Canada geese. At dawn each day a flotilla of trawlers would proceed to sea, using these paravanes to sweep the navigation channels. As a Mediterranean yacht charter or flotilla destination Croatia's effortless blend of history and hipness make it somewhere with universal appeal. In 1871, a tugboat was lured up the Hudson to Sing Sing and shanghaied by escaped Tammany men, then chased by a flotilla of guards in rowboats, who finally ran it aground near Nyack. But on June 7 Yeo's flotilla shelled their camp, forcing them to retreat precipitately to Fort George, which thus became the final fort in the peninsula to harbour American soldiers. They form an inescapable interrogation, with biologists, neuroscientists, quack therapists, wack columnists and a flotilla of bigots holding the lamp. The pendant light is a flotilla of hot air balloons hand blown in glass. Show More Sentences In the 1930s and during the War the Japanese had their own flotilla on the river. The IX torpedo boat flotilla formed close support immediately surrounding the battlecruisers. He delves into the history of French imperialism, from the flotilla that set sail from Toulon in 1830 to wrest Algeria from Ottoman control, to France's blood-soaked colonial retreat. Toward the horizon a flotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun. They were perched atop our five-boat flotilla and I cried like a baby. In 1943, the German battleship Tirpitz and an escort flotilla shelled and destroyed the Allied weather station in Operation Zitronella. Since the Canadian navy is fully interoperable with the U. S. navy, U. S. warships could be theoretically assigned under the command of the Canadian flotilla as was done during the gulf war. But the night-time raid on the flotilla was a harder PR battle. They sailed for the Bay of Honduras, where they added another ship and four sloops to their flotilla. Late that month his flotilla blockaded the port of Charles Town in the Province of South Carolina. The Germanic flotilla was destroyed in a naval engagement, Gannascus was driven out, and Frisian territory was forcibly occupied. This flotilla first reached the coast of Brazil, landing there in 1500, and then continued eastwards to India. After making landfall Vespucio decided to separate from the flotilla and he sailed south towards Brazil. The main flotilla arrived at the mouths of the rivers Essequibo and Orinoco in the Gulf of Paria. Encisco was ordered to follow on after the main flotilla with a chartered boat and more provisions. The main flotilla finally set sail from Santo Domingo on 10 November 1509, a few days ahead of Nicuesa. By 23 January, a flotilla had been established by countries opposing Iran's threats to close the Hormuz Strait. After the war Canada had spared no expense in building a first class well-equipped research institution in Nainamo backed up by a small flotilla of ocean-going research vessels, the largest being the G. B. Reid. The flotilla withdrew under heavy gunfire and with considerable damage to the Barracouta. On the morning of 14 March, the flotilla passed Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands. Show More Sentences Describes the actual landing of men and materiel… REPORTER AT LARGE about the invasion flotilla off the coast of North Africa, making ready to invade Sicily. It is true and very crucial, it means also that the butchery on the flotilla has at least a positive result: evolution on these position of non speaking terms. Commanding a small flotilla of frigates and smaller vessels, he landed a force of 167 seamen and marines early on the morning of 8 March under a supporting bombardment. To do so, he needed to ensure that the Royal Navy would be unable to disrupt the invasion flotilla, which would require control of the English Channel. On February 14, the destroyer, HMS Cossack was leading a flotilla of four other destroyers and the cruiser Arethusa on a sweep of Skagerrak looking for German iron-ore ships. Princess Anne yesterday led a flotilla of boats along a new extension of the Forth and Clyde Canal as she opened The Kelpies visitor attraction yesterday. Native labourers may have manufactured the flotilla of boats used by Alexander the Great to navigate across the Hydaspes and even the Indus, under Nearchos. Later in 1985 the Rainbow Warrior was to lead a flotilla of protest vessels into the waters surrounding Moruroa atoll, site of French nuclear testing. This is one of the most important tasks of any mine warfare flotilla. In 1945 the Soviets again put their own flotilla on the river. On the sea, a Roman flotilla was captured by a Germanic one. There are several options when considering a sailing holiday including bareboat, flotilla or even with an experienced skipper and Eden can arrange them all. Enrique de Colmenares invited two representatives, to be named by the local government, to travel with his flotilla and offer de Nicuesa authority over the city. On leaving Spain the flotilla sailed along the west coast of Africa to Cape Verde before taking the same route that Columbus had used a year before on his third voyage. Examples from Classical Literature The officers on board the flotilla had no doubt at all that the danger was real. The Cytherean babes had set their torches to that flotilla, and it had blazed like match-wood. As soon as this penetrated to the flagship, Grayson was decorated and given a flotilla. Again the war-drum is heard, just as the flotilla is passing a small island. Gaily uniformed crews in their college flotilla formed a star-shaped group near the shore for their annual concert. The conquest of the northern provinces began soon after the flotilla of Legaspi came to anchor in Manila Bay. One by one, and noiselessly, we shoved them off and made them fast in an awkward flotilla. On November 22, 1942, Fraser was sent to attack a flotilla of three Italian light cruisers off the toe of Italy. The flotilla drew around the curving water-front and toward the Gate. He remounted the bridge, and guided the steamer through the flotilla of junks, tankas, and fishing boats which crowd the harbour of Hong Kong. Instantly it was seen that quite a flotilla was approaching. A broad stream of dazzling foam trailed behind the flotilla. Now there remained no trace of their dominion except the old steamer, once part of a Dervish flotilla, which was his house and office. Sweeping over the glassy surface was a great flotilla of canoes coming straight for the shore upon which we stood. Monseigneur, to provision a fleet, to assemble a flotilla, to enroll your maritime force, would take an admiral a year. I was sure that with definite plans to go by Perry could oversee the construction of an adequate flotilla. Find more words! 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