Sentence examples for great fleet from inspiring English sources

alan watkins was one of the last of the great Fleet Street characters.

A great fleet flying the flag of St George sails across the stage.

Ribble's image is polished by a great fleet of preserved red buses cared for by the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust.

The great fleet of B-47 and B-52 intercontinental bombers already deployed also assured continued American strategic superiority through the early 1960s.

"He was a great Fleet Street colleague," says Brian Jackson, the travel writer and ecologist who shared an office with him at the Sunday Times from 1970.

Armada, also called Spanish Armada or Invincible Armada, Spanish Armada Española or Armada Invencible, the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders.

In conjunction with his secretary of the navy, William Eaton Chandler, Arthur recommended appropriations that would later help to transform the United States Navy into one of the world's great fleets.

And the Thames was paramount to the growth of the British Empire with great fleets setting sail from the capital to embark on voyages of exploration.

Under John II, the Aegean islands also became responsible for the maintenance, crewing and provision of warships, and contemporary sources took pride in the fact that the great fleets of Manuel's reign were crewed by "native Romans", although use continued to be made of mercenaries and allied squadrons.

During the age of wooden ships, however, great fleets were burdensome to maintain and always liable to destruction by contrary weather, most famously in the case of the two kamikaze typhoons that destroyed the Mongol invasions of Japan in AD 1274 and 1281.

"This is the kind of tree that the British used to build the world's greatest fleet of ships back in the 17th and 18th century," Mr. Cohn said, as he climbed the tree, waxing grandiloquent about the denseness of its wood and its resistance to disease.