Sentence examples for approaching the ship from inspiring English sources

In this case, the officials said, the Cole was operating under a heightened state of alert, known as threat condition bravo, that required sailors armed with rifles and wearing body armor to watch all boats approaching the ship.

But initial relief at finding that the Yemenis had videotape from their own harborside cameras turned to disappointment, then anger, when it turned out that the tape delivered to the Americans showed nothing of the bombers approaching the ship or of the fireball that accompanied the blast.

"Skiff That Bombed U.S. Destroyer Now Said to Have Moved In Alone" (front page, Oct. 21) reports that according to government officials, "the Cole was operating under a heightened state of alert, known as threat condition bravo, that required sailors armed with rifles and wearing body armor to watch all boats approaching the ship".

They are provoking discomfort in Turkey -- the authorities recently indicated that they might not allow divers to approach the ship if it is found -- and renewing old questions about the response of other countries to the Nazi genocide.

We are saved!" They began to row hard, and, as they approached the ship, Mundy, aware that German sailors had been known to pose as civilians at sea in order to lure British ships, shouted, "We are survivors of the Robin Moor, sunk thirteen days ago at 25.46 west, 6.10 north".

The official offered no new details of the explosion, other than saying that the small vessel believed to have set off the blast was "some sort of Yemeni boat that approached the ship when it as already at anchor" and that "it was not suspicious to the point where anybody took any notice of it".

Another threat is from polar bears, and one approached the ship while we were on board.

A Pentagon spokesman said Iranian Revolutionary Guards Navy patrol vessels had approached the ship while it was moving through Iranian territorial waters, but inside an area that under international agreement is open to foreign ships making an "innocent passage".

Admiral Fraser ordered his destroyers to approach the ship and torpedo her.

Fortunately for the men aboard Hector, the tiny snow Hawke appeared and approached the ship of the line to render assistance.

In the early afternoon, lookouts on Rattlesnake spotted sails near the Little Basses Reef and approached the ship, which turned with the wind and fled to the southwest.