Sentence examples for fleet landing from inspiring English sources
noun
The place along a shoreline or pier used by sailors to go ashore.
Another good restaurant is Fleet Landing, based in an old navy building on the waterfront in historic downtown.
The Phantom Express, as it is known, would perform like one of the many jets in Boeing's vast fleet, landing on a runway with a 737-like wingspan, able to take off quickly on demand — just fuel up and go.
The didactic 1877 novel The Invasion depicts a Russian fleet landing 6,000 troops at Botany Bay in the early hours of the morning; in the 1883 novella The Battle of the Yarra, a tsarist incursion to Melbourne results in "the filthy gutters of Flinders Street beco[ming] thickly stained with blood".
The ship carried the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines to Culebra for a fleet landing exercise in January 1935.
Pompeii is first mentioned in history in 310 bce, when, during the Second Samnite War, a Roman fleet landed at the Sarnus port of Pompeii and from there made an unsuccessful attack on the neighbouring city of Nuceria.
After the war of independence a new dumping ground for the criminal classes had to be found and in 1787 the first fleet landed at Botany Bay, Australia.
According to the Chronicle of Mann and the Chronicle of Lanercost, a Scottish fleet landed on Mann on 7 October, and early the next morning the revolt was crushed as the Scots routed the rebels at the Battle of Ronaldsway.
The domestic fleet landed a total of 2.5 million tonnes in national ports in 2009, valued at about NOK 11.3 billion (USD 1.8 billion).
EU-based fleets land about eight times as much fish in UK waters as British fishermen do in EU waters, under the common fisheries policy, and the government has indicated that this access will be one of the key items under review.
Together these fleets would stage a major operation in the English Channel, driving off the Royal Navy Channel Fleet and allowing a fleet of landing barges to land on the southern coast of England as the first move in an invasion of Britain.
Sea Shepherd, too, has an impact: the fleet is landing only half the whales it aims to catch.
