Sentence examples for surface shipping from inspiring English sources

When one belligerent or the other has virtual control of surface shipping in portions of the seas, he is said to have command of the seas, with the ability both to defend his own sea communications and to deny communications to the enemy.

Standard surface shipping costs $4 a unit.

Three other RAAF squadrons in the UK would also support operations in Normandy as part of Coastal Command; No. 10 and No. 461 Squadrons were equipped with Sunderland flying boats and flew patrols of the waters around the UK and France, while No. 455 Squadron operated against German surface shipping using Beaufighter strike aircraft.

Russian surface ships soon afterward detected noises from the bottom.

"We asked them not to use surface ships.

Covers the design of surface ship platforms for naval applications.

Yet the most flexible and agile naval surface ship – the frigate – is being downgraded.

In addition to supporting and maintaining Britain's nuclear submarine fleet, Devonport manages surface ships.

In addition to two submarines, the Navy had a surface ship, the Loyal, in the Barents Sea.

The army has already fallen in size and the navy has many fewer surface ships.

In naval intelligence, underwater acoustic waves from surface ships and submarines are detected by sonar arrays.