Sentence examples for flotilla left from inspiring English sources

A 2010 Israeli raid against a Gaza-bound flotilla left nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists dead.

That flotilla left from here, on Ishigaki island, on the southern edge of the Okinawa chain about 80 miles from the Senkakus.

The other four ships in her flotilla left for Gibraltar as escorts to a convoy.

On 13 November 1939, the flotilla left Singapore for the Mediterranean Sea, following a request from the Admiralty for assistance.

Early on the 11th, Emden and the II Flotilla left port; the torpedo-boat flotilla split in half off the Dogger Bank to search for the British convoy, while Emden stood by in support at the Dogger Bank.

But there were no immediate takers in the official aid flotilla, leaving Mr. Sachs lobbying private shippers.

Israel begged Turkey not to let the flotilla leave Turkey, and if it did, to have it dock at Ashdod, Israel, where any humanitarian aid could have been delivered.

It is the signal for the king's subjects to load their possessions into dug-out canoes and join the flotilla, leaving their now waterlogged villages behind for another year.

Here on the Niangua River, one of countless spring-fed riffles cooling these mountains, inflated tubes bob alongside dented metal canoes and rubber rafts in great flotillas left to the captainship of the current.

The confrontation was being watched intensely after the military's raid of a flotilla last year left nine activists dead.

Two of the boats were part of a four-vessel flotilla that left a beach near Libya's capital Tripoli on Saturday, according to Ms Sami.