Sentence examples for head of the fleet from inspiring English sources

The Victorian state supermaxi Skandia, which won in 2003, was also expected to be near the head of the fleet.

Navigating Grael into the best winds was the Isle of Wight-based Jules Salter (his brother, Guy, is that media man) and it is he who has also put the boat at the head of the fleet of eight as it streaks towards the finish of the first leg from Alicante in Cape Town.

Dodging the Staten Island Ferry and tacking through the spectator boats, the Swiss sailor Bernard Stamm, the Frenchman Thierry Dubois and the Briton Emma Richards soon began to maneuver their 60-footers through the pack and toward the head of the fleet.

One contemporary writer critical of the scuttling of the Terrible wrote that "she made no more water than she did before [the battle]", and, more acidly, "If an able officer had been at the head of the fleet, the Terrible would not have been destroyed".

And I like to think now of gender identity itself as a head-of-the-fleet luxury liner, one that deserves to be launched in celebration and revered by all.

An anti-government group took over a frigate in the naval base of Gölcük and held the head of the Turkish fleet hostage, a Greek military source told Reuters.

At Gölcük naval base, a frigate was reportedly taken over by an unidentified anti-government group and the head of the Turkish fleet was held hostage, a Greek military source told Reuters.

Apokaukos arrived at the head of the Byzantine fleet to aid the Zealots, pinning Kantakouzenos down in Macedonia between Thessalonica and Dushan's possessions.

Doge Ordelafo Faliero, who had conquered an island in the Gulf of Kvarner during the last year of Coloman's reign, returned to Dalmatia at the head of the Venetian fleet in May 1116.

In August 1793, these problems came to a head in the fleet off Brest, when a lack of provisions resulted in a mutiny among the regular sailors.

Capitalizing on its victory in the Sydney-Hobart Race, the opening third of the leg, Assa Abloy took advantage of its ensuing head start on the fleet to record its first individual leg victory after two disappointing finishes.