Fleet of vessels

Usage examples of flotilla.

In a flotilla of dhows, Osman Atalan and his entourage sailed up the Bahr El Azrek, the Blue Nile, as far as the small river town of Aligail.

He had imagined Beaumont was testing him in his new role as second in command of the Scrapyard Flotilla.

All he could understand was that Beaumont had decided to stay out of the fight with the bulk of the flotilla.

The British already had their agents in the bases who, amongst other things, could observe the sporting activities of the flotillas, and from that the enemy could deduce which boats were still at base and which at the front.

To prevent these boats even reaching the invasion area, the British transferred four extra Support Groups to Plymouth at the western exit from the Channel, where they joined up with six other flotillas.

We had no heavy surface units in that sea area, merely some destroyers, torpedo boats and other small craft, and former fishing vessels used as patrol and mine-sweeping flotillas.

Rear Admiral Fritz Bonte, commanding the German destroyer flotilla, answered by sending an officer in a launch to the Norwegian vessel to demand surrender.

Combined Fleet in Cadiz, is all that prevents Bonaparte from sailing his flotillas, Nelson said quietly.

They waded out into the warm shallow water, beyond the shrieks of the bobbers and dunkers, avoided the little paddle-bicycles, the flotilla of water wings, and still were only waist deep.

Generals commanding military districts, and commandants of military posts and detachments, and officers commanding fleets, flotillas, and gunboats, will give safe conduct to persons and products, merchandise, and other articles duly authorized as aforesaid, and not contraband of war, or prohibited by order of the War Department, or of the order of such generals commanding, or other duly authorized military or naval officer, made in pursuance hereof, and all persons hindering or preventing such safe conduct of persons or property will, be deemed guilty of a military offense and punished accordingly.

Gaby was now riding with Hautbois and Robin, while Valiha and Psaltery led the flotilla in canoes that rode high in front.

She, with two of the largest boats, were to bombard the fort, the rest of the flotilla were to board the junks, with the exception of the boats under Mr.

Oonalaska, westward of the Aleutian chain of islands and Kadiak, just south of the great Alaskan peninsula, were the two main points whence radiated the hunting flotillas for the sea-otter grounds.

A continuous cordon of jovial but overworked policemen, including some from Italy, France and Germany since the numbers of the tiny Swiss force were simply not up to the task, maintained a clear zone two hundred meters wide between the rapidly growing crowd and the perimeter fence, while on the lakeward side a flotilla of police launches scurried to and fro to keep at bay an armada of boats, yachts and craft of every description.

He was being delivered back to Drummond and to his home in County Cork by the most convenient route - as part of a minesweeping flotilla.