Sentence examples for shipping against from inspiring English sources

Convoys were to serve a totally different purpose during World War I the protection of British merchant shipping against German surface raiders and submarines.

Up to 10 warships are on patrol off the Horn of Africa as part of the EU's Atalanta operation, which was launched to protect commercial shipping against pirate attacks.

From June to August 1944, the squadron was mostly occupied with nightly patrols over the beachheads to guard the Allied troops and shipping against German bombers.

Adolf Hitler decided to send a flotilla of U-boats into the Mediterranean to attack Allied shipping, against the advice of Großadmiral Raeder.

Although the debate over whether and how to use private security contractors to protect commercial shipping against the threat of piracy, notably Somali pirates, has been brewing for years, all of a sudden a number of events seem to signal that the debate is largely ended and the PSC industry has emerged victorious.

In 1776 it had 27 ships against Britain's 270.

Alfred reorganized his army and used ships against the invaders as early as 875.

Soldiers think they can guard children against drug traffickers, ships against pirates, dirty bombs against proliferation and states against failing.

He was recalled to Spain in 1567 and later helped organize a squadron of ships against the English.

A nautical college in Blackpool is teaching sailors how to use weapons to defend their ships against pirates.

Then siphon-pump technologies enabled the flammable mixture, mainly naphtha, to be propelled under pressure from ships against other ships or coastal fortification.