Sentence examples for off the fleet from inspiring English sources

"Our navigator picked everything, he did an awesome job," said skipper Anthony Bell – who was celebrating his second line honours triumph after knocking off the fleet aboard Investec Loyal in 2011.

Inside the tube station the platforms were crowded with people, reading special editions that had just rolled off the Fleet Street presses.

A17 Space Shuttle Ready for Liftoff With threatening skies the last remaining barrier, NASA's administrator declared that the revitalized space shuttle Discovery was ready to lift off on the fleet's first mission in nearly two and a half years.

The fleet departed Vigo and stopped in Queenstown, Ireland; while there, Wilhelm II, aboard his yacht Hohenzollern, attended the Cowes Regatta while the rest of the fleet stayed off the Isle of Wight.

Nearly $1 billion of that cost-cutting was to come from combining route systems and, quite simply, lopping off about 10percentt of the fleet and other flight operations.

By 05:00, she had slowed to 11 kn and was given permission to break off from the fleet and head to the port of Keelung in Formosa along with the destroyers and as escorts.

The British squadron had been detached on the previous day from the British North Sea fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan, which was cruising off the Batavian fleet anchorage at the Texel, while the Batavian squadron was returning to the Netherlands from the Norwegian coast where it had been sheltering since suffering defeat at the Action of 22 August 1795 the previous year.

The Japanese hoped the Yamato might finish off the Allied fleet after the latter had been weakened by kamikaze attacks.

Many still wave goodbye to serving men as their ships pass close to the battlements that front Portsmouth's harbour, heirs to those who saw the Mary Rose set sail, and those who waved off the Falklands fleet in 1982 (though probably not with Robert Wyatt/Elvis Costello's Shipbuilding ringing in their ears).

The Spartans soon drove off the Athenian fleet, but the Athenians continued their land assault.

But the real peril was a large lava tongue pushing into the harbor, threatening to block off the fishing fleet, the main income source for the island.