Sentence examples for dropping depth from inspiring English sources

For more than a decade, the navy conducted frequent searches of Swedish waters, sometimes dropping depth charges on suspect objects.

While Coco clung to the Belgrano's bridge, Conqueror was diving deep, shuddering from the force of the explosions and wondering if the cruiser's escorts were dropping depth charges.

For a decade, the navy conducted regular searches of Swedish waters in the hunt for submarines, sometimes dropping depth charges on suspect objects.

An American surveillance plane was shot down over Cuba, another wandered into Soviet airspace, and an American destroyer was dropping depth charges to force to the surface a Soviet submarine that had approached the American blockade line.

The event was the men's four-hundred-metre individual medley, in which swimmers are encouraged to prove that, short of dropping depth charges, there is nothing they can't do in the water.

And we had destroyers that were dropping depth charge on their submarine.

One is 27 October, when US destroyers enforcing the quarantine around Cuba were dropping depth-charges on Soviet submarines.

The Roper dropped depth charges instead, then swept up the dead bodies.

We talked about smoke screens and Japanese Bettys and Zeros and the only time — at least while I was aboard — that we had dropped depth charges on what we thought were Japanese submarines.

As these dramas ratcheted tensions beyond breaking point, an American destroyer, the USS Beale, began to drop depth charges on the B-59, a Soviet submarine armed with a nuclear weapon.

Then he encountered allied convoy KS-520 — 19 merchant ships and five escorts, bound from Virginia's Hampton Roads to Key West, Fla. Seaplanes dropped depth charges, one of which slid off the sub's hull and exploded, according to the National Archives.