Sentence examples for in convoy for from inspiring English sources

Its handful of vessels, some dating from before the second world war, are so decrepit that they have to chug along in convoy for the three days it takes to reach Zambia on the lake's southern tip.One big problem, explains the port's chief, Moise Nsengiyumua, is that the railway which used to connect the lake's Tanzanian port at Kigoma to the Indian Ocean no longer works.

Through the spring of 1944, the 846th Regiment used jadgkommandos, lightly armed and mobile "hunter teams" of company or battalion strength, to conduct follow-up of sightings of Partisans, and transport moving through the Kapela Pass had to travel in convoy for security.

This company transported goods from India to Europe using a fleet of large and well-armed merchant ships named East Indiamen, which travelled in convoys for protection, and were escorted during wartime by ships provided by the Royal Navy.

The captain, with the grim seriousness of a young commander, also had arranged the entire visit as a training exercise in convoy security for the Iraqis.

El Oriente departed Kola Inlet on 1 March and returned to Liverpool, from which she sailed in a convoy for New York on 6 April, and returned to Belfast Lough in late June.

After arriving there on 2 July, West Cobalt sailed the next day in Convoy HX-55 for Liverpool.

Méhaule and his colleagues set off in convoys of white Toyota Highlanders, searching for the displacement sites.

Those suggestions comported with the account of a Syrian officer who said in a recent interview that the heavily guarded military area around the Jamraya research facility was used as a weapons transfer station to southern Lebanon and Syria's coastal government stronghold of Tartous for safekeeping, in convoys of tractor-trailer trucks.

She remained in convoy patrol and training for several years, until she was moved to the Pacific Fleet late in the war and supported landings on Iwo Jima in February 1945, and later the Invasion of Okinawa in April 1945.

A fast-swimming river otter lead us in a watery convoy for a stretch.

Occasionally, we'd see some of the big, post-apocalyptic trucks that had been part of a theme camp or a mobile art work, looking like they'd been in the supply convoy for Desert Storm.