Sentence examples for coastal forces from inspiring English sources

In total, some 9,500 sailors manned more than 200 vessels, but they were mostly small coastal forces that never engaged the enemy.

In 1940, Bomber Command was asked to support Coastal forces, even though at that time in the war it overstretched itself.

As each boat needed to select a radio call sign, Hichens could not think of anything suitable and Lieutenant Arty Shaw suggested Hitch, which stuck and remained with him for the rest of his time with the coastal forces.

On 26 October, the Yugoslav Partisans informed Lieutenant Commander Morgan Morgan-Giles, commander of the coastal forces in the north Adriatic, that there were two German destroyers in a cove on the south coast of the Rab Island.

To enable effective design, reduced uncertainty in the assessment of flood risk due to natural variability within the coastal forcing is required to focus on conditions that pose highest threat.

Despite the evidence of considerable naval activity in this period, earlier scholars believed that the Roman navy had all but vanished by the 4th century, but more recent work has altered this picture towards a transformation into a mainly fluvial and coastal force, designed for close co-operation with the army.

Such a force could prove far more effective in defeating coastal naval forces than a vulnerable aircraft carrier worth $5 billion and with thousands of sailors aboard.

India's naval advantage might allow it, for example, to impede oil traffic heading for China through the Malacca Strait.China and India are both rapidly developing their navies from coastal defence forces into instruments that can project power further afield; within this decade, they expect to have three operational carrier groups each.

A wall of water whipped up by strong winds also flooded coastal areas, forcing about 150,000 people to flee their homes, officials said.

Without carriers, a navy becomes a coastal defence force, capable of operating effectively only under the protection of land-based aircraft.

His goal was to take a moribund coastal defense force and raise it to a level where it could compete with navies from the West.