1. The plane developed engine trouble shortly after takeoff.

2. We were stranded with engine trouble on a deserted highway.

3. One of the cruisors had engine trouble and dropped astern.

4. 20 BA flight 144 from Munich was overdue owing to engine trouble.

5. At 9.00 am the destroyer Asashimo developed engine trouble and dropped out of line.

6. Yet, when a ship has engine trouble, it may remain moored for three weeks.

7. Engine trouble forced our plane to lay over in San Francisco for two hours.

8. During a convoy to Malta in January 1942, the ship was detailed to escort the merchant ship Thermopylae to Benghazi when she started having engine trouble.