Sentence examples for vessels sank from inspiring English sources

Bong Meneses of the Philippine Rescue Coordinating Center said both vessels sank.

Sixteen fishermen went missing after their vessels sank off Cox's Bazar, a resort town some 250 miles southeast of Dhaka, a local fishing association said late on Thursday.

After several days of maneuvering, South Korean Navy vessels sank a North Korean torpedo boat with at least a dozen men aboard and also damaged another vessel on June 15 , 1999

The prefect of Salerno, Salvatore Malfi, told the Italian press that the women had been travelling alongside men and when the vessels sank, "unfortunately, the women suffered the worst of it".

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Sunday, Nov. 22 (AP)—Amer ican vessels sank a trawler presumed to have been North Vietnamese, in a battle on the South China Sea as the trawl er attempted to infiltrate South Vietnam, the Navy an nounced today.

The vessels sank off Pauktaw township in Rakhine state late on Monday.

We witness the horror of overcrowded and decrepit trafficking vessels sinking in the Mediterranean, drowning their passengers.

There has also been extensive scavenging of both German and British vessels sunk in the first world war during the battle of Jutland.

Researchers at Bangor University are using the £2.8 million research vessel Prince Madog to survey hundreds of vessels sunk in the First and Second World Wars, as well as later wrecks.

They claimed 104 vessels sunk and 72 damaged.

By 29 May, the Allies had lost 31 vessels sunk and 11 damaged.