Sentence examples for War fleet from inspiring English sources

All are underutilized, having been geared for the Navy's Cold War fleet.

Cantacuzenus also tried but failed to weaken the economic stranglehold of the Genoese by rebuilding a Byzantine war fleet and merchant navy.

In 1647 Tasman commanded a trading fleet to Siam (now Thailand), and in the following year he commanded a war fleet against the Spaniards in the Philippines.

Rome's port at Ostia was set on fire, the consular war fleet destroyed, and two prominent senators, together with their bodyguards and staff, kidnapped.

The Falklands may be the supreme example; to an outsider, sending a British war fleet thousands of miles into the southern hemisphere seemed like a comic anachronism.

Built in 1656 as a storage house for the country's war fleet, it now serves as a physical reminder of the deep connection between the Netherlands and the sea.

By the Civil War, fleets of several hundred hacks operated in the city streets.

The elaborate complexities of financing war fleets in the 14th century, of papal diplomacy, the deliberations of dithering monarchs, battle formations, the minutiae of social upheavals revealed in ancient parish records, are pepper in Sumption's mortar.

These great rowing galleys relied for their offensive powers on boarding or ramming, and they were used in great numbers in the Mediterranean as the war fleets of the armed forces of Athens, Alexander the Great, Carthage, Rome, Byzantium, the Italian republics, the Arabs, and Aragon.

Nuclear navies have had to go to extraordinary lengths to cope with their bloated and ageing Cold War fleets of hunter-killer and ballistic missile nuclear subs.

Most of its planes would inevitably be lost or damaged, so Mr al Mishari was planning a shiny new post-war fleet.