Sentence examples for salvage force from inspiring English sources

With the assistance of Admiral Smith, Wallin was able to assemble a large salvage force which included submarine rescue ships, special salvage ships, divers, and pontoons to add additional buoyancy for the tug boats when the time came to move Missouri.

Last weekend, rough wintry seas and strong winds forced salvage crews to suspend preparations to drain the fuel, a job expected to take four weeks, and officials said the conditions might not allow a resumption until Wednesday or later.

The vessel was supposed to be removed before this summer, but the difficulties of drilling holes into granite in 35 feet of water, in addition to an extraordinarily long and rough winter, forced salvage workers to modify the original timetable.

ROME — Rough seas and strong winds forced salvage crews to suspend preparations to drain the fuel from a half-sunken luxury liner off the Tuscan coast on Saturday, and officials said the conditions might keep them from resuming work until midweek.

William J. Bratton, who was heralded as a crime-fighter after taming New York City's rampant violence in the mid-1990s, has now been summoned to London to help salvage a British police force that has been bruised and maligned following days of rioting, deaths and arson fires.

Taking on water, the Keokuk sank in shallow water the next morning, providing a rich salvage prize for Confederate forces.

Which is why he believes that without reform to housing and development laws, neither Mr. Gilbert nor the emergency manager, nor any combination of earthly forces, can salvage Detroit.

But Groh got an unanticipated bonus look into the future as the Jets were forced to salvage a game they had led most of the way: the rookie quarterback Chad Pennington directed the winning nine-play, 72-yard touchdown drive that featured the rushing of Vaughn Sanders, the rookie free agent from Hofstra, who scored the winning touchdown with 1 minute 17 seconds to play.

CAIRO, June 16 (Reuters) - The cockpit voice recorder from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 has been found by search teams who were forced to salvage the device over several stages as it was damaged, the Egyptian investigation committee said on Thursday.

That's right, Palin had the absolute gall to blame Obama for the crisis in the auto industry, one that developed under George Bush and which Obama has been forced to salvage, and she specifically blamed him for the closing a GM dealership on the Kenai Peninsula, not far from Anchorage.

Yates appeared before MPs as Britain's biggest police force attempted to salvage its reputation after it emerged it missed numerous allegedly criminal acts of phone hacking by the News of the World, and that some of its officers allegedly sold information to the paper, which facilitated the hacking of the royal family.