Sentence examples for channel shipping from inspiring English sources

He arrived in Britain in 1941, and flew Spitfires with 411 Squadron, providing cover for Channel shipping and escorting bombers attacking the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau as the battlecruisers made their daylight dash up the Channel.

The harbour closed as a naval base on 29 March 1996, and was sold as a centre for water sports and as a service facility for Channel shipping.

The lucre has attracted companies one would not normally associate with the "Debbie Does Dallas" crowd such as General Motors, which sells $200m a year in pay-per-view sex films through its DirecTV satellite-dish subsidiary, and AT&T, through its Hot Network sex channel, shipped digitally into homes over AT&T's cable lines.Some of this probably causes little harm.

The FDA definition of counterfeiting expands to include parallel-trade and product diversion a product intended for one market or sales channel shipped to another.

The islands themselves channel ships into the gaps between them, and those constrained passages are great for naval mines.

Deliberate attacks on cross-channel shipping ceased on 5 November 1941, when the collier Glencree was strafed.

The voice was recorded from the internationally recognized channel for ship-to-ship communications, Navy officials have said.

The Pentagon said the audio clip was recorded from the internationally recognized channel for ship-to-ship communications.

HMS Empress was a seaplane carrier of the Royal Navy RNN) that served during World War I. Converted from the Cross-Channel packet ship Empress, the ship's aircraft conducted aerial reconnaissance, observation and bombing missions in the North Sea and Eastern Mediterranean.

In designing such an anomaly detector, the electromagnetic propagation conditions that characterize the channel between ship AIS transponders and BS have to be taken into consideration.

The bridge's main span is 213 feet when open and provides a 157 feet wide navigation channel accommodating ships' superstructures up to 66 feet in height.