Sentence examples for shore position from inspiring English sources

Currently, such work is done through counts conducted from a shore position, from the deck of a ship or from a plane.

The same year, he received the shore position commanding the guardship HMS Orford in the Medway.

After a couple of miserable days, they decided to carry the shore positions and try to overcome the French earthworks.

Shot was also fired at the captured East Indiamen, various other vessels in the harbour and any small batteries or shore positions that remained in French hands.

Their advance would be covered by artillery fire against German shore positions from the heavy monitors at distance and at closer range by gunfire from the destroyers.

The Japanese ships also shelled shore positions at Gili Gili and Waga Waga and illuminated, but did not fire on, the hospital ship Manunda which was displaying her hospital ship colours and lights.

On 22 March during routine operations involving the inspection of fishing craft for contraband arms and supplies, the chief engineer, Chief Engineman Morris S. Beeson of the Point Orient was killed in ambush fire from three shore positions while attempting to board a sampan near Qui Nhon.

The observations were collected at four cross-shore positions on the intertidal beach of Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands, during calm to storm conditions, with the offshore significant wave height peaking at 3.7 m.

The advection scales and settling of this sediment were measured during the uprush along a rigid sediment-free beach face by a sediment trap located at varying cross-shore positions.

The tower is constructed in a shore berth, towed out to position, and then sunk to the seabed, where the base is finally filled with sand.

It was Burrell's first shore-based position, and he spent the next four months bringing naval sections of the War Book (preparations for war) up to date.