Sentence examples for naval convoy from inspiring English sources
Nearly 100 people were killed in a suicide bombing on a naval convoy in a north-central district on Monday.
In 2002, a classified, $250 million Defense Department war game concluded that small, agile speedboats swarming a naval convoy could inflict devastating damage on more powerful warships.
Pentagon and Navy officials said they had no additional information on the source of a radio transmission threatening the American naval convoy during the encounter.
This week, among other horrors (see map), the Tigers conducted suicide bombings on navy targets, including one on a naval convoy near Habarana that killed nearly 100 sailors, and two on a base beside the southern tourist resort of Galle.
See articleTamil rebels carried out attacks on government targets in Sri Lanka, including a suicide-bomb aimed at a naval convoy that killed over 100 people, most of whom were sailors.
But several Pentagon officials said the commander of a Navy destroyer involved in the episode had been on the verge of issuing an order to fire on one of the small, high-speed boats sailing near the American naval convoy.
Although the U.S. ground troops faced no opposition in the days immediately after the landing, naval convoys carrying reinforcements to the Arawe area were repeatedly attacked.
The station was short-staffed because many were on secondments to various government services, such as operating other radio stations and training new radio officers to work in naval convoys.
Small Allied naval convoys arrived at Guadalcanal on 23 August, 29 August, 1 September, and 8 September to provide the Marines at Lunga with more food, ammunition, aircraft fuel, and aircraft technicians.
On receiving word of the German naval attack on Convoy JW 51B in what became known as the Battle of the Barents Sea, King George V was dispatched along with nine other ships from Scapa Flow on 31 December to provide cover for the returning Convoy RA 51 and to attempt to catch the German ships engaged in the previous assault.
Since the U.S. Navy had insufficient ships for these convoys, Fredericton along with six other Canadian corvettes was temporarily transferred to American naval operational command for convoy escort between Guantánamo Bay and New York City.
