Procession of trucks

Usage examples of convoy.

After all, Al Farooq, the very mosque al-Fadl worked out of, was the scene of that intense four-week FBI surveillance in the summer of 1989, when agents followed the convoys of jihadis to their Calverton shooting sessions.

He agrees that in the light of enemy dispositions it is right to postpone the March convoy.

A fair example of a transatlantic convoy crossing in June 1942 and of the comparatively slight improvement in antisubmarine warfare to that time, is furnished by the story of convoy ONS-102, from Londonderry to Halifax.

World War Two, the Allies ran convoys to both Murmansk and Arkhangelsk for several years.

In the middle of the Ashura services, an Israeli military convoy tried to drive through Nabatiya, honking horns for people to get out of the way.

Pontiac had been warned at last of this new danger, and had sent his trusty Ottawas, leaping like deer, down the river banks with a faint hope that the approaching convoy might still be cut off.

To drive the convoy away as well, to leave the colonnade, go into the palace, order the room darkened, collapse on the bed, send for cold water, call in a plaintive voice for his dog Banga, and complain to him about the hemicrania.

The attorney general pressed Barnett and Johnson to keep the peace, and the federal convoy still barreled on.

Whatever Beaumont had to tell them, convoy work was not going to be included, that was obvious.

The U-boats, which had by August begun to work from Biscayan ports, took severe toll of our Atlantic convoys without suffering many losses themselves.

If, despite everything, a U-boat did succeed in latching onto a convoy, it was not itself allowed to attack but had to maintain contact and report position, course and speed by radioed short-code signal to the C-in-C U-boats, who would call up all the boats within reach.

Vigilant and the two Coast Guard patrol boats were at last withdrawn to accompany a convoy from Fort Pierce to the north.

In general the boats maintained radio silence, but when reporting position or damage, above all on sighting a convoy, a lively exchange of information took place with the C-in-C.

Thus ended the last attack on the convoy SL 118, in which four boats of the Blucher group, including U 333, had taken part.

February the effect of air surveillance has increased alarmingly when many boats are returning from big convoy battles.