La Blanche, had brought, on the preceding night, a few minutes after La Minerve's first broadside, the smaller Spanish frigate to close action.
Although the French avoided a close action, it is supposed that their loss was 1,200 killed, owing to their ships being crowded with men.
Sixth action between the British fleet, admiral Hughes, and French, admiral Suffrein, in the night, in close action.
The British schooner Balaboo, of six guns, captured by the American privateer schooner Perry of five guns, after a running fight of fifty, and a close action, of ten minutes.
After reconnoitering and discovering her force, and the nation to which she belonged, we hauled upon a wind to stand out of the bay, and at 3 o'clock shortened sail, tacked and ran down with an intention to bring her to close action.
At 45 minutes past 2 the signal was made for "close action.
At a quarter past six, the gunboats being all out of shot and in tow, I hauled off, after having been three-quarters of an hour in close action.
Graves had signaled for "close action," but Hood chose to believe that the order for line ahead still held until the signal was repeated, whereupon he bore down.
The following day, the 20th, brought a fresh wind that enabled the English to overhaul the Dutch, who could not move faster than the heavily laden merchantmen, and force a close action.
The signal to this effect, however, was soon changed to "Close action," and only the two leading ships eventually broke through.
Instead of transmitting the signal to the vessels under him, Nelson kept his own for "Close action" hoisted.
The commander of the English van, with his seconds, also behaved with spirit and came to close action.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "close action" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
