Sentence examples for were disembarked from inspiring English sources

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were disembarked

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To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark.

  • The general disembarked the troops.

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Whenever Eagle was not at sea, her aircraft were disembarked and used ashore.

Two of her 4.7 inch guns were disembarked and used in the Battle of Colenso.

The Western Australian members of the 9th Division were disembarked, and the ships loaded supplies and mail.

The wounded and sick prisoners were disembarked, and the contents of a small French brig were turned over to the inhabitants to replace the seized supplies.

On 5 May 1919, Kilkis and a pair of destroyers escorted a convoy of six troop transports to Smyrna, where the soldiers were disembarked.

Instead, everything was staked on the beachhead; more than 3,000 kamikazes would be sent to attack the amphibious transports before troops and cargo were disembarked on the beach.

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The queues caused ferry companies to suspend their services and about 600 people were stranded last night on ferries on the Solent as the boats could not be disembarked because of traffic build-up on the island.

The British navy's flagship is poised to join a big migrant rescue operation in the Mediterranean as early as Tuesday after spending the weekend stuck in port amid a diplomatic spat over where rescued people should be disembarked and processed.

The substantive change to the operation could conceivably come after the passengers are disembarked, when separate teams of smugglers dart into international waters to retrieve the abandoned fishing vessels and tow them back to Libya, ready to be reused in subsequent smuggling missions.

When she arrived off Palestine, her air wing was disembarked to carry out operations to help to suppress the disorder.

She could not be disembarked due to a storm, but soon became accustomed to the motion of the ship at sea and had no more problems.

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