Sentence examples for from convoy from inspiring English sources

In all, 19 Allied ships were sunk from convoy SC 107.

The first was the 5,246 ton Swedish cargo ship Yngaren, straggling from convoy HX-168 due to bad weather, about 600 nautical miles west of Ireland.

On 11 February, the ship encountered and sank an isolated transport from convoy HG 53, which had been dispersed by U-boat and Luftwaffe attacks.

There, on 16 November, she attacked the 4,915 ton British merchant ship Arlington Court, a straggler from Convoy SL-7A, en route from Rosario, Argentina to Hull with a cargo of 7,340 tons of maize.

During this operation, one enemy ship was damaged, the 4,803 ton British steam freighter SS Stonepool, which had become separated from Convoy OB 17 while sailing from Liverpool, England to North America.

U-43s fourth and final success on her fourth patrol took place on the morning of 17 July when she sank the 3,509-ton 3,509-tonerchant ship Fellside, a straggler from convoy OA-184, aBritish5 nautical merchantrth-weshipFellside Foreland (Cnoc Fola), Donegal.

They were nicknamed "coffin-ships"; the task of these armed merchantmen was to divert U-boats away from convoys.

So to your How to Stay Alive in Baghdad guide you should add the sentence: Stay away from convoys.

Mr. Gates said this month that 30percentt of the calls for help from security contractors had come from convoys that the military did not know were on the road.

From Convoys Wharf to Mount Pleasant, Johnson ended up using his powers to actively prevent councils from providing low-rented housing where there was urgent local need for it, while setting a dangerous precedent for bypassing the democratic planning process.

The goal would be to scramble radio and cellphone traffic, block signals from convoys that allow headquarters to track the movements of troops and supplies, or jam data from satellites that feed vital navigation systems.