Sentence examples for aboard a destroyer from inspiring English sources

"I went to war with them aboard a destroyer off the coast of Vietnam.

One of the American seamen portrayed is the author's father, Richard B. Snow, a lieutenant aboard a destroyer escort.

Mr. Roosevelt, who was traveling to Campobello Island aboard a destroyer in July, stopped to pick up the sailboat in Boston.

He joined the Naval Reserve as an ensign and served as a gunnery officer aboard a destroyer, participating in the invasion of Sicily and, in the Pacific theater, in the American landings in Hollandia, the Admiralty Islands and the Philippines.

Last year, Vietnamese officers observed a U.S. military operation aboard a destroyer, the John S. McCain, named after two admirals, the father and grandfather of Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, who was a prisoner of war in Hanoi for six years.

Seventy years after serving as a teenage seaman and watching the D-day operation unfold from aboard a destroyer in the Channel, Ken Briggs has become engaged in a fresh battle – with the UK government he once risked his life for.

As part of the inquiry, Navy officials examined the record of a sailor aboard the Benfold, a destroyer that was part of the Constellation battle group.

This week, the state news media gave prominent coverage to Mr. Xi's visit with troops of the Guangzhou military region, including a trip aboard the Haikou, a destroyer that belongs to the fleet patrolling disputed waters in the South China Sea.

During WWII, Bob served as an officer aboard the USS Mansfield, a destroyer in the Pacific, and, always attuned to the finer necessities of life, snuck an ice cream maker aboard the ship.

And, days later, with Beatrice by his side, he steps aboard a British destroyer evacuating foreigners.

He didn't become interested in maritime museums until he served two years aboard a Navy destroyer and taught at the Officers Candidate Schooll in Newport, R. I