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Sentence Examples The acoustic replaces the electric and there is no electro-pop numbers like Mayday to take the album on a different tangent. The warship received a Mayday saying the ship had exploded following a fire and was sinking off the coast of Malta in severe weather conditions. The radio operator sent a Mayday distress call, which was logged by the local Coastguard station at 12.06 am. He sent out a Mayday signal when the vessel began to take water shortly before darkness fell. The men sent a Mayday radio message at about 11 am and made a classic ditch landing south of St Martin's Island. To send armed forces onboard a civil ship sending out Mayday signals is piracy. It answered a midnight Mayday from a yacht in distress and altered course to make a mercy dash off the Dorset coast. The ship sent out the Mayday signal early yesterday morning when it was about 33 nautical miles away. Mayday was a raucous and fun time, electing a Queen of the May from the eligible young women of the village, to rule the crops until harvest. Each total is almost twice the entire number of anti-capitalists who turned up to the London Mayday event. I screamed a Mayday call and hoped I had made the right impression to whomever was listening. Houle also suggested to higher authorities that downed aircrews use the term Mayday instead of just talking on the radio. Finally, with knee-deep water in the cabin 200 miles from Bermuda, he issued a Mayday call. The victim, a 17-year-old boy, was taken to Mayday Hospital after he was knifed while sitting at a bus stop in Beulah Hill last Friday. A similar failure of a life raft was reported in a Mayday incident last year in the North Channel off the north Antrim coast. With their radio still working the men were able to send out a Mayday signal which was relayed to air traffic control at Blackpool airport. A modern factory fishing vessel vanished without sending a Mayday and no survivors were picked up. It also cites the case of a container ship which ignored a Mayday call off the North Queensland coast. The radios will still transmit Mayday signals and vessel identification data but won't send GPS coordinates. The skipper of their dive boat sent a Mayday to Humberside Coastguard at 5.15 pm after the two had returned to the boat. Show More Sentences Some of them, like a guy directing traffic atop stilts at one of last Monday's Mayday demos, prefer to wear a pink bunny suit. Aberdeen coastguards broadcast a Mayday relay message to all vessels in the area and the vessel Dea Mariner responded and steamed to the area. A fishing trawler off the Outer Hebrides broadcast a Mayday after their engine room and fish hold flooded. The rapidity with which the occupants of the boat were thrown into the water precluded the transmission of a Mayday message. The crew broadcast a Mayday and then deployed the rigid liferaft, an Ovatek 4, into the water. As they descended, the crew transmitted a Mayday and began working through the emergency procedure. Another serious challenge to the Zombie Theory is the absence of any Mayday call from the pilots. Numerous Mayday calls were made on VHF frequency 121.5 and various HF frequencies, without a response. A marine radio could have been used by either vessel to transmit a Mayday call, indicating a distress situation. The question of whether they'd actually pull off the ambitious Mayday was part of the appeal. The first happened before she reached her station, when a 79-year-old yachtsman put out a Mayday as he had been badly cut and was losing a lot of blood. By 5pm that day, after Mayday calls went unanswered, they were forced to abandon ship, torching the wheelhouse as a last-ditch smoke signal and praying it would be seen. The crew abandoned ship at 6.30 am after issuing a Mayday call saying their ship was sinking in the Bristol Channel, around 35 miles south west of the Pembrokeshire coast. The skipper was experienced and had faced worse seas before and so sudden was the calamity which overwhelmed him that he was unable to send out a Mayday call. The Mayday Trust is opening a six-bed home in Cape Road for homeless people, or those at risk of becoming homeless. Aircraft in the area heard the pilot transmit a Mayday call indicating that he was attempting a forced landing on a logging road. When a Mayday sounds, the Dräger FRT 1000 system can be used to quickly locate the down or disoriented firefighter. The rapidity of capsizing may preclude transmission of a distress message, prefixed Mayday, as in this instance. A Mayday was broadcast and the two crew members threw the rigid liferaft, an Ovatek 4, into the water. The vessel sank less than two hours after the Mayday call went out. Show More Sentences However, such dances are performed every Mayday around the permanent Maypole at Offenham, in Worcestershire. The Black Prince Procession is a Mayday custom in the villages of Millbrook, Kingsand and Cawsand. An EPIRB that activates automatically could have transmitted a specific Mayday signal, which would have limited the search perimeter to the minimum. On every first Monday in May, Penrith holds its Mayday Carnival. I bit my lip, as surely it can't be good form to do a mayday, even if it's supposedly off any monitored channel. Also like the Air France disaster, the pilots of AirAsia had no time to issue a mayday call. A TOTAL of 117 migrants have been rescued off the western Greek island of Zante after their boat issued a mayday call. Rescue helicopters and coastguards raced to the scene as the crew sent out a mayday alert before abandoning ship. This event is commemorated by a march organised by the Derby Trades Union Council annually on the weekend before MayDay. Since the Cessna does not have a flight-data recorder, investigators will interview the air-traffic controller who heard Brand's mayday calls. The leader of the 16 kayakers put out two mayday alerts on a VHF radio at 4pm after one of the party capsized. Examples from Classical Literature Jarvis is put up for Cumberland, we hope he will be there by or before Mayday. Then there used to be the shooting at the butts, and the shows, and the Mayday revels, and all sorts of things. Somebody pick up our Mayday while we were cruising submerged? Find more words! 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