Word Finder - convoy

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One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.

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A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.

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The act of convoying; protection.

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To escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection.

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A frigate convoys a merchantman.

Dean was enlisted as part of the convoy to the popular spot.

The convoy formed up.

Dean lost his convoy of younger bikers on the short uphill and he paused momentarily at the crest to wipe his eyes and scan the roadway below him for his prey.

In place of the movements of great fleets to a single end, we have a nine years' story (1805-1814) of cruising for the protection of commerce, of convoy, of colonial expeditions to capture French, Dutch or Spanish possessions and of combined naval and military operations in which the British navy was engaged in carrying troops to various countries, and in supporting them on shore.

The battle of the Herrings (February 1429) was fought in order to cover the march of a convoy of Lenten food to the English army besieging Orleans.

Carson took part in the Mexican War, and, after the rush to the Pacific Coast began, engaged as a guide to convoy emigrants and drovers across the plains and mountains.

A pleasant feeling of excitement and an expectation of something joyful and solemn was aroused among the soldiers of the convoy and the prisoners.

You might call this democratic and synodical process the convoy system which proceeds at the pace of the slowest ship.

The average monthly tonnage of Allied ships sunk approached half a million, despite some success with the convoy system.

Play as either Navy Seals trying to stop a convoy from rolling through or play as terrorists who try to keep the convoy moving.

Jones is chased by South American aborigines, escapes death by blowdart, springs numerous lethal deathtraps and steals a horse to chase a truck convoy.

Merchant vessels were required for their protection to sail in convoy.

Soon afterwards he returned to England in charge of a convoy.

Meanwhile the Dance class trawlers, with their heavier and somewhat archaic 4 in, guns, occupied themselves with the convoy itself.

In a typically audacious action, Rampage struck at a Gold convoy passing Planet New London.

So they do their daily march in rear of the convoy, carrying their worldly belongings with them.

The last time the Swans played in Cardiff, police escorted a convoy of 32 busses.

We waved goodbye then rushed into our vehicles to join the convoy, mobile phones at the ready in case of emergencies.

Dropping missiles at an armored convoy in an Apache helicopter?

He was also poet on the biggest humanitarian convoy traveling to war torn Croatia in 1993.

Shortly afterward, Wanklyn intercepted another convoy of five heavily laden supply ships, escorted by four destroyers.

The site of the former royal dockyard, now Convoy's Wharf, is currently under redevelopment.

This was to be the convoy escorted by two dance class trawlers, destination Gibraltar.

The Wellington served primarily in the North Atlantic on convoy escort duties.

Some of the vehicles in the convoy were disabled, and Capt Philippson was shot and killed in the ensuing firefight.

In the event she was sent in June to Gibraltar with a convoy of troops to reinforce the garrison there.

The transit time for a convoy through the danger area was five hours which was plenty for the german gunners to range on ships.

Scouts quickly agreed to fill roles as diverse as stretcher-bearers, convoy signallers, firewatchers and bicycle messengers.

As the convoy got closer to Malta another cruiser, nine destroyers, four fleet minesweepers and six minesweeping launches joined the escorting ships.

Shortly past noon, a car bomb struck an Iraqi police convoy in the same neighborhood, killing six security men.

We had thought her lost but she had gone due north into the ice, escorting the three ships of her small convoy.

More often than not, however, the vessels were used as patrol or convoy escort sloops.

The convoy with its twelve escorts would proceed to Dungeness where the Dover Command escorts, minesweeping trawlers, would relieve those from Portsmouth.

There we boarded a convoy of Army lorries and continued our journey westwards.

The convoy, including eight whalers, arrived in the Downs on 27 October.

Now the integrity of Japan was worth little if the Russians could hope ultimately to invade her in superior force, and as Port Arthur was the station of the fleet that might convoy an invasion, as well as the symbol of the longed-for hegemony, the fortress was necessarily the army's first objective, a convincing Sedan was the next.

Wishing to find out where the commander-in-chief was, he rode up to a convoy.

Do you expect me to give you two battalions--which we have not got--for a convoy?

Two of the commanders of large parties--one a Pole and the other a German--sent invitations to Denisov almost simultaneously, requesting him to join up with their divisions to attack the convoy.

The shelling required the ships to weave toward the fall of shot and the convoy had to regroup as soon as it finished.

Once the Jewish convoy had passed the smaller Arab group, they would rapidly erect a roadblock blocking the escape route.

She also took roles in 1970s films Convoy and Players.

The trade was enormously profitable, not only to the merchants but to the town, which levied a rigorous duty on all exports and imports; at the same time formidable risks had to be faced both from the desert-tribes and from the Parthians, and successfully to plan or convoy a great caravan came to be looked upon as a distinguished service to the state, often recognized by public monuments erected by " council and people " or by the merchants interested in the venture.

The management of that enterprise, however, was a difficult one, and cost Villehardouin another embassy into Italy to prevent if possible some of his fellow-pilgrims from breaking the treaty with the Venetians by embarking at other ports and employing other convoy.

So far the operations had been confined to commerce destroying, or to the protection of trade by convoy.

In this war we do not find that the movements of fleets were subordinated to the work of providing convoy.

The object was to plunder a Dutch convoy which had taken refuge at Bergen in Norway, then united to Denmark.

The Germans, alerted by the chance meeting of a coastal convoy with the raiding force, wiped out the entire force.

He had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor's wife and the convoy officer.

Christian De Wet, who had first come into prominence as the captor of Lord Roberts's convoy at Waterval, and was now operating east and south-west of Bloemfontein in order to counteract the influence of Roberts's numerous flying columns which rode hither and thither offering peace, added to his laurels by ambushing Broadwood's mounted brigade and horse artillery at Sannah's Post, just outside Bloemfontein, on the 31st of March.