Sentence examples for torpedo off from inspiring English sources

On Nov. 13, 1942, the American light cruiser Juneau, limping away from one of the fiercest naval battles of World War II, was hit by a Japanese torpedo off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands and went down with most of her crew of 700.

Nearly 1,200 people died when the passenger liner was hit by a German torpedo off the Irish coast.

Vindictive returned home in 1944 and was damaged by a German torpedo off the coast of Normandy after the Allies invaded France.

On 18 and 19 December she covered the evacuation of Allied troops from Suvla Bay, and the evacuation from West Beach on 8 and 9 January 1916; she was hit by a torpedo off Cape Helles on 9 January, but it failed to explode and she suffered no damage.

All this did not seem entirely absurd: In February, an oil tanker was torpedoed off New Jersey by the German submarine U-578.

But the boat was torpedoed off Liverpool, and Stampfl ended up in icy waters for hours, surviving when many others did not.

After his ship was torpedoed off the tip of South Africa, he helped some of the sailors join him in a lifeboat.

Salmond senior had served on two British carriers as a Royal Navy petty officer; one, HMS Indominitable, was torpedoed off Sicily in 1943.

Memorial Fountain honours four army chaplains who gave their life jackets to soldiers aboard the troopship Dorchester when it was torpedoed off Greenland in 1943 during World War II.

Lee Berkowitz -- my wife's aunt, who as a 15-year-old girl reached North America with her family only after the creaky freighter in which they crossed the Atlantic was torpedoed off Nova Scotia by a German submarine -- thanked Zo?or having "enlarged my horizon".

The Britannia was on a voyage to Gibraltar when she was torpedoed off Cape Trafalgar.