Sentence examples for boats managed from inspiring English sources

The special branch marine unit used a high-speed boat to reach the scene and with local boats managed to turn the pod back towards the open sea.

Some starboard boats managed to reach their objective and disembark their Commandos.

At the same time, the third section of Sardinian boats managed to force their way ashore despite heavy opposition, capturing the dockyard and routing its Tripolitanian defenders.

On 10 December 1917, two Italian torpedo boats managed to penetrate the port of Trieste undetected, and fired torpedoes at the battleships Budapest and Wien.

Under the command of Captain Harry Brown of the brigade's engineer squadron, fifteen men with a makeshift fleet of six boats, managed to transport fifty-five Poles across the river.

But 20 minutes later, the other boat managed to cover Reality, blocking its wind.

Although one of the British battleships attempted to ram it and destroyers rushed to drop depth charges, the U-boat managed to escape.

The crew was in touch with race officials and the nearby American yacht, Alvimedica, with radios and satellite phones, but they floated in darkness, through shark- and barracuda-infested waters, until a local coast guard boat managed to pick them up in the morning.

Several attempts to cross the river by boats only managed to establish some isolated bridgeheads, and at 10 15, the Light Division was given permission to break off the crossing at this point and ordered to shift its axis of attack by reinforcing the Dutch troops on the Island of Dordrecht, where it arrived that night.

But more than 100 firefighters and other responders converged on Pier 97 by truck and boat and managed to contain the heaviest of the three-alarm fire's flames by about 5 p.m., officials said.

Getting the man beside him to steady the boat, Robert managed to climb back in — something he always found difficult in moving water — and, leaving the Slav safe in the shallows, headed for the others.