Sentence examples for ship sir from inspiring English sources

General Brooks said the aid ship, Sir Galahad, was expected to be able to steam up the channel to Umm Qasr on Friday.

United States Navy officials said four mine-sniffing dolphins were used to clear the Khor Abdullah waterway leading to the port so the first aid ship, Sir Galahad, can dock and unload.

The British ship Sir Galahad had been due to dock in the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr today to deliver emergency food aid to desperate Iraqis, but has been forced to wait after more mines were found in the approaches to the port.

Former Welsh Guardsman Simon Weston, who suffered terrible injuries in the bombing of the ship Sir Galahad during the Falklands War in 1982, gives an unequivocal "yes".

The Welsh Guards were among 48 members of the British forces who died when troop ship Sir Galahad was bombed by the Argentines just six days before the 1982 conflicted ended.

British Falklands War veteran Simon Weston, who was badly injured when his ship Sir Galahad was attacked, told the BBC he did not believe that Argentina's military capability was as strong a threat as it was at the time of the initial conflict.

They have done their job so well that only two naval auxiliaries actually in the anchorage, the ice tank landing ships Sir Lancelot and Sir Galahad, have been slightly damaged.

Reluctantly, the captain has Billy hanged, only to regret his decision years later.Part of the opera's strength is the way it conveys the claustrophobia of life on a ship, says Sir Andrew.

But now under the loving caress of live TV, 450 tonnes of humanitarian aid - a minuscule fraction of what's actually needed (call it a script prop) - arrived on a British ship, the "Sir Galahad".

Inuit in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut, where the second ship from Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition was recently discovered, are pushing for a voice at the table as Canada and Britain decide the fate of the contents and artefacts recovered from the ill-fated expedition.

A ship named Sir Harry Johnson took them from Zanzibar to the African mainland in the German colony of Tanganyika.