Sentence examples for ships closing from inspiring English sources

Norovirus has been in the news for sickening passengers on cruise ships, closing a middle school and postponing a college swim meet.

At dawn lookouts aboard Stronghold reported two unidentified ships closing on the convoy.

As a result, the ships closed on each other, and then pulled apart; sometimes they shot at each other at a distance of 100 yards, and sometimes at 15 feet.

At 19 00, the German ships closed to attack.

Spotted on September 10, the two ships closed, and Payne hailed the Morris to discover her intentions.

While approximately 110 km south of Betano, Armidale and Castlemaine sighted Kuru, and the three ships closed by dawn.

As the cloud of smoke cleared, nearby ships closed on Burkes former position to search for survivors.

Ten minutes later, the British ships closed in and the flag on Gneisenaus foremast was struck; at 17:50, Sturdee ordered his ships to cease fire.

Shortly before 17:00, the British ships closed it: Belfast again illuminated the ship with star shells, while Duke of York fired salvos from her main battery.

The Grampuss crew sent their sailors to look for the pirates by land, while the ships closed the access to the beach.

In his frigate HMS Phoenix, Halstead was able to cut the Batavian frigate Argo off from the shore and bring it to battle, forcing it to surrender in just 20 minutes as other British ships closed with the combat.