Sentence examples for neutral vessels from inspiring English sources

The White House then announced it had widened its role in the Gulf ordering American warships to aid any neutral vessels under attack.

Napoleon reproached the tsar for trading with England under cover of neutral vessels and for refusing him the hand of his sister, the grand duchess Anna Pavlovna.

The doctrine specifically refers to the stoppage and seizure of goods carried by neutral vessels either out of or heading toward a neutral port.

The German admiralty announced in February 1915 that all Allied vessels would be torpedoed without warning in a broad area and that even neutral vessels were not safe.

Dutch flirtations with the Russian-sponsored League of Armed Neutrality, resistance to British searches of neutral vessels, and indications of Dutch negotiations for an alliance with the Americans only worsened relations.

The Dutch government requested explanation from Germany over the seizure of the neutral vessels and their cargoes.

Byam saw the Airstream as a neutral vessel wherever it sailed.

Preble repeatedly hailed the deck of the Florida and, receiving no reply, fired a shot across her bow, the standard procedure in wartime to bring a neutral vessel to heave to in order to permit further investigation.

It's the perfect neutral vessel for a nice, triple crème cheese.

Two other German sailors were later plucked from the water by a neutral vessel.

Tubantia was the largest neutral vessel sunk during the war and among the 30 largest ships sunk by U-boats.