Sentence examples for squadron away from inspiring English sources

Dance's merchant ships chased Linois's squadron away before resuming their course and meeting their escorts several days later.

In mid-January 1815, a snowy gale with strong winds forced the British blockading squadron away from New York Harbor, giving Decatur the opportunity to put to sea.

Since leaving the Texel, De Winter had been unable to escape from Trollope's ships: on the evening of 10 October, several Dutch vessels were detached to drive his squadron away while the Dutch fleet lay off the Maas, but could not close with the faster British vessels.

Brisbane himself remained in distant contact with Leissègues for another day before the French squadron sheered away.

The East Asia Squadron steamed away at 22 kn in a single file line; Nürnberg was the second ship in the line, between Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.

Finn recalled how a neighbor was the first to alert him, when she knocked on his door saying, "They want you down at the squadron right away!" He drove to the hangars, catching sight of Japanese planes in the sky on the way, and found that the airbase was being attacked, with most of the PBYs already on fire.

At 14 00, Linois abandoned the action and ordered his squadron to haul away with the wind and sail eastwards, away from the convoy, under all sail.

He proceeded to change this, deploying the squadron 300 miles away to Cootamundra in rural New South Wales, where he "borrowed a portion of a sheep station from a friend so that the pilots could carry out their bombing practice" over a two-week period commencing in late November 1935.

Her husband, Gary, an Air Force captain, was away at squadron officers' school in Alabama.

A few hundred metres away, a squadron of Turkish tanks sits idle.

This prevented Morard de Galles and Hoche from belatedly joining their squadron and took them away from the route back to France.