convoys in English

noun
1
a group of ships or vehicles traveling together, typically accompanied by armed troops, warships, or other vehicles for protection.
He had previous convictions after pretending to be a fleet manager sending aid convoys to Bosnia and twice posing as a police officer.
verb
1
(of a warship or armed troops) accompany (a group of ships or vehicles) for protection.
These campaigns were narrowly defeated using a balanced force of Allied fleets, with opposing submarines, merchant ships convoyed by surface ships (primarily destroyers), and sea and land-based aviation.

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1. (b) Two-abreast convoys

2. Three Potential Concepts for Automating Army Convoys

3. 305 m for vessels and convoys of:

4. Truck convoys often stop over for lunch here.

5. The escort unit accompanied convoys from Trinidad to Recife, where it was relieved by Brazilian Navy units who took the convoys to Bahia.

6. U.N. aid convoys have unimpeded access to the city.

7. Ambulances and humanitarian convoys must gain access to the camps.

8. 26 Our convoys are being continually harassed by enemy submarines.

9. She escorted troop convoys from Yokosuka to Saipan in May.

10. Cheerly served as a rescue tug with convoys in the English

11. Between these operations, Wells escorted convoys to and from Iceland.

12. She provided cover on 24 September for the convoys of Operation Halberd.

13. RAN ships also escorted US supply convoys bound for the Philippines.

14. Besides defending convoys, these were used to transport aircraft across the ocean.

15. The unit split up into three convoys for the long march to Kufra.

16. The destroyer also escorted convoys to the landing area until mid-October.

17. She escorted troopship convoys from Saigon to Rangoon through the remainder of March.

18. The streets were jammed with slow moving traffic, army convoys moving north-east.

19. Delete all references to sound signals from convoys in the text of section F.

20. She escorted coastal convoys, on 15 July 1942 attacking a submarine off Cape Hatteras.

21. Provoking Turkey, the Americans continued sending the Kurds new arms in convoys via Iraq.

22. In August through October, she escorted troop convoys from Kure to Taiwan and Luzon.

23. The partisans lay up by day and by night sallied out to attack convoys.

24. Delete all references to sound signals from convoys in the text of section F

25. restrictions for vessels or convoys in terms of length, width, draught and air draught,

26. Howorth arrived in Yokohama, Japan on 17 September, where she escorted convoys back from Japan.

27. The Chechen rebels can still mount hit-and-run attacks, mining roads and ambushing convoys.

28. In July, Satsuki escorted convoys from Kure via Manila to Lingga, then patrolled from Singapore.

29. Wainwright continued to escort Atlantic convoys through the summer and into the fall of 1942.

30. In the text of section F, all references to sound signals by convoys should be deleted

31. In the text of section F, all references to sound signals by convoys should be deleted.

32. A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.

33. She escorted three troop convoys from Surabaya to Kaimana, New Guinea during April and May.

34. 19 A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.

35. 25 A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.

36. Despite the absolute destruction and the magnitude of relief operations, transatlantic naval convoys had resumed within a week.

37. Private security firms in Afghanistan provide guards for everything from diplomatic missions and aid agencies to supply convoys .

38. Through the spring of 1943 she operated out of Argentia escorting convoys bound for the United Kingdom.

39. After working up in Bermuda, she arrived at Halifax on 14 February 1945 and began escorting local convoys.

40. Based on Guam and Saipan, she escorted convoys and patrolled on air-sea rescue station until July 1945.

41. For the remainder of the year, the high-speed transport escorted convoys between ports in the Mediterranean Sea.

42. Ambushing convoys, destroying ammunition dumps. Ambushing merchant parties for some time to judge from the contents of the cave.

43. After 26 February 1942, she spent a year escorting convoys from a mid-ocean meeting point to Icelandic ports.

44. She was loaned to the USSR in 1944 and renamed Arkhangelsk, escorting Arctic convoys for the remainder of the war.

45. July 10 – The Battle of Britain commences with the first German attacks on British convoys in the English Channel.

46. For the rest of October, she continued to guard the convoys from Florida Island to various islands in the Solomons.

47. On July 16 Renamo and the government signed a joint humanitarian declaration designed to allow unrestricted passage for food convoys.

48. During the Korean War , carrier-based aircraft played a critical role in attacking enemy airfields, convoys and troop staging areas.

49. Consider traveling in pairs and using convoys of multiple vehicles to mitigate the risks related to traveling outside of Bujumbura

50. Coalition Airstrikes targeted two ISIS convoys leaving Falluja over two days, destroying about 175 vehicles carrying militants out of the city