Sentence examples for convoy ships from inspiring English sources

During the second world war he worked on convoy ships to Murmansk.

On the subject of this statement the Naval Operations Staff made a comprehensive reply to the Foreign Office". Then there is the reply on the next pages, and I should like to call to your attention a part of it first, under Heading 1, about the number of convoy ships sunk.

Recalling D-Day, he said: "On the way over there was a terrific convoy, ships everywhere.

The convoy ships were escorted by cruisers Seattle and, and destroyers and.

Although nine convoy ships were sunk by six German and two Italian submarines on 23 24 February, Empire Cheetah safely reached her destination of Philadelphia on 10 March.

The Fw 200s could shadow convoys, directing U-boat attacks on them, or drop bombs on convoy ships, without opposition and to deadly effect.

In 1941, hoping to make his way to New York, Mr. Freud enlisted in the Merchant Navy, where he served on a convoy ship crossing the Atlantic.

In a third convoy sailing, a problem with her steering gear caused her to collide with another convoy ship, Empire Scott, and on 1 August Empire Simba straggled and dropped out of the convoy.

Later, as the United States moved toward more active support of the Allied cause, the warship began convoying ships carrying Lend-Lease matériel to the United Kingdom.

For the remainder of 1917 and into the late spring of 1918, Tucker operated out of Queenstown, hunting German submarines, escorting and convoying ships through the submarine-infested war zones, and providing assistance to ships in distress.

Examples in Iraq range from billing for soldiers' meals that were never cooked or served to convoys shipping "sailboat fuel" (as Halliburton -KBR truck drivers laughingly termed charging the government for moving empty pallets from site to site).