Sentence examples for armada ship from inspiring English sources

For those who want to keep walking, the crowds quickly thin and some of the best sights are still ahead of you – such as the Chimney Stacks, or Lacada Point, where the Spanish Armada ship La Girona foundered in 1588.

Alternatively, a piece of local folklore once suggested that it came from a wrecked Spanish Armada ship.

The exhibition includes 514 items, including paintings, books, documents, and jewelry recovered from sunken Armada ships, the latter on loan from the Ulster Museum in Belfast and being shown in Spain for the first time.

The president made only passing reference to the 30,000 U.S. troops poised off Iraq with an armada of ships and planes.

The discovery is believed to be the first of a Nantucket whaler, one of an armada of ships that set sail during the early 19th century when the small Massachusetts island was an international capital of whaling.

The allergy of power and hubris to humour, and of humour's subversion, can be said to begin in England with Chaucer's story about the pardoner selling pieces of the true cross sufficient to build an armada of ships.

That allowed it to bring in a small armada of ships and emergency craft to prepare for the drilling season, which lasts 90 to 120 days in the summer, when the Beaufort Sea is largely free of ice.

However, Graves was slow, and when he arrived at the bay on the morning of 5 September, the French armada (twenty-five ships of the line and six frigates) under Rear Admiral François de Grasse was already there.

On August 19 , 1991 the day before Mr. Gorbachev was to sign the "New Union Treaty" to convert the Soviet Union into a federation of independent republics, he and his closest advisers were blockaded by an armada of ships and troops at his vacation home in the Crimea.

This caricature shows England and Wales – with the face of King George III – defecating an armada of ships from Portsmouth onto France.

We joined a vast armada of ships of all nations, all shapes and sizes, some lying anchor, some bustling busily about.