Sentence examples for warship by from inspiring English sources

Near Malta, they came across an American warship; by dinghy, they sent a formal invitation to the ship's commanders to join them for New Year's Eve cocktails.

On 18 July, just hours after the MH17 crash, Abbott said: "Some years ago now, an American warship by mistake downed an Iranian aircraft.

Also, the first sinking of a warship by a submarine occurred on February 17 , 1864 when the Confederate submersible Hunley sank the blockader USS Housatonic.

The United States and South Korea want to send a stern message to North Korea over what Seoul says was the torpedoing last March of a South Korean warship by a North Korean submarine.

Some in the West, including Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, have ascribed the sinking of a South Korean warship by a North Korean torpedo attack in March to the succession struggle and Kim Jong-un's efforts to establish credibility with the military brass.

Mr Flynn also pointed to a recent attack against a Saudi warship by Iranian-backed Houthi militants as evidence of "Iran's destabilising behaviour across the Middle East".

FOR decades navies have employed human divers, dolphins and sea lions to search for explosives attached to the hulls of warships by a scuba-diving enemy.

As he prepares to leave the Pentagon, Mr. Carter acknowledged that some procurement programs – sophisticated warplanes and warships – by necessity take years to unfold.

FOR years navies have employed human divers, dolphins and sea lions to search for explosives attached to the hulls of warships by a scuba-diving enemy.

American naval gunfire had sunk or destroyed most of the Spanish warships by the time the squadron withdrew about 7 35 am.

The British, to whom the French had promised Dunkirk in return for forming an alliance against Spain, blockaded the port with their warships by sea.