Sentence examples for convoy group from inspiring English sources

A thwarted submarine attack on the first convoy group, and reports of heavy submarine activity off of Brest resulted in a change in the convoy's destination to Saint-Nazaire.

A thwarted submarine attack on the first convoy group, and reports of heavy submarine activity off of Brest, resulted in a change in the convoy's destination to Saint-Nazaire where the convoy arrived 2 July.

The Cove Convoy, a group of Sydney FC supporters, has landed in Germany to follow the Socceroos.

Although the Pentagon and British Defense Ministry have agreed to coordinate the airstrikes so that they will not hit relief convoys, aid groups said they will have a hard time persuading local truck drivers to brave the wretched roads.

It was that air attack – which destroyed around a dozen cars – that dispersed the convoy into several groups, the largest numbering about 20.

One mural shows us silhouettes of tankers, troopships and tugboats in the nocturnal New York Harbor: a convoy of ships, grouped for protection against attack, making its way with troops and supplies across the Atlantic.

The first phase, during which the U-boats generally operated singly, ended in March 1941, by which time many merchant ships were sailing in convoy, trained escort groups were becoming available, and aircraft were proving their effectiveness as anti-U-boat weapons.

The convoy was merely a group of refugees.

To the modern mind, a convoy has become a group of merchant ships protected against submarines.

On the way back to Maverick, the convoy drove past a group of sullen-looking Iraqi police at a barricade, then pulled up in front of a well-tended middle-class home.

Not counting side trips to drive the rare existing stretches of the original Route 66, as well as to visit other attractions along the convoy's route, the group traveled from Morris, Ill., through seven states.