Sentence examples for principal fleet from inspiring English sources

Carrying more than 100 aircraft, these vessels became the principal fleet carriers of the Pacific Theatre.

Antony successively established his headquarters at Ephesus (Selçuk), Athens, and Patras (Pátrai) and marshalled his principal fleet in the gulf of Ambracia (northwestern Greece).

During the French Revolutionary Wars the Royal Navy had exerted dominance at sea over its continental rivals, most immediately the French Navy with its principal fleet based at Brest on the Breton coast of the Bay of Biscay.

The French Atlantic Fleet however was in poor condition: the principal fleet base at Brest in Brittany had been the scene of a significant mutiny in 1790 and by 1791 desertion rates among French naval officers were running at more than 80%.

Being located closest to the Muslim Levant, it remained the Empire's principal naval fleet for centuries, until it was reduced with the decline of the Arab naval threat.

Meanwhile, Adm. Edward Hawke destroyed or immobilized the principal French line fleet at Quiberon Bay in 1759.

Mr. Tommasini called the orchestra's performance under Fabio Luisi, the Met's principal conductor, "a fleet, clear-textured and wonderfully natural account of this multilayered, ingenious score".

The French fleet, its principal squadrons blockaded in Brest, continued to send raiders to sea.

Between those two events, it had become clear that aircraft carriers were the new principal ships of the fleet and that battleships now performed a secondary role.

We have about 75 years of driving experience now shared across the fleet…" Dmitri Dolgov, principal engineer, Google Self-Driving Cars "As the search gets larger and more complex, what it does is more often surprising to us, what it can answer.

French Republican forces in the Mediterranean, under pressure from Austrian and Spanish armies, Royalist uprisings and British blockade had suffered the loss of their principal naval base and the fleet stationed there when British forces under Lord Hood seized Toulon at the invitation of the city's Royalist faction.