Several German torpedo flotillas dashed forward to attack, delivered torpedoes, and returned, despite the most severe counterfire, with the loss of only one boat.
I immediately altered course to south-southeast, increased speed, and ordered the light cruisers and flotillas to get in touch and report movements of enemy.
The fourth also contained a light cruiser squadron, a squadron of six gunboats for mine sweeping, and fourflotillas of destroyers, each with a flotilla cruiser attached.
As the Germans followed, the British destroyer flotillas on the northwest came rapidly down.
Attached to this fleet were also two cruiser squadrons, a mine layer squadron of seven vessels, four patrol flotillas, consisting of destroyers and torpedo boats, and seven flotillas of submarines.
The best way to destroy the submarines seemed to be in a direct attack by flotillas of destroyers.
The ship--it does not appear whether it was actually built or not--was intended for the attack of the French invasion flotillas which were blockaded inside their ports by our fleets.
Powerful moles, some 650 feet long, protect the flotillas of torpedo-boats and submarines, and great stores of ammunition and supplies facilitate the provisioning of our ships.
The three submarines were a decoy to draw the enemy's flotillas to the westward.
On the 19th and 20th July the magnificent naval force formed by the assembly of the first, second, and third fleets, with various flotillas of destroyers and submarines, was inspected at Spithead by King George.
What doubtless attracted both men was the hope of destroying the French invasion flotillas at Boulogne and in the Basque Roads, which our fleet could not get at.
While in midstream the boats were generally safe, though occasionally the savages grew so bold that they manned flotillas of canoes and attacked the laden flat-boats in open day.
Whipping around to westward, the flotillas caught the German destroyer V 187, which at 9.
Thirdly, if conditions for night battle were too risky why did the Grand Fleet fail to keep sufficient touch with the enemy by means of its light flotillas so as to be informed of his movements and prevent his escape?
Fearless and the Arethusa with their flotillas were attacked by the Stralsund, which under a heavy fire made off toward Heligoland.
It is owing to this latter fact that we hear of large flotillas dispatched by each side even in the same year, yet not meeting in naval action.
As Commodore Tyrwhitt's flotillasswept southward, they engaged and chased 10 German destroyers straight down upon Heligoland.
Caught in a noose by an overwhelming force, he disentangled himself by means of the torpedo attacks of his destroyer flotillas and turned away under cover of their smoke screens.
Admiral states in his report, "The flotillas had advanced only 2 miles since 8 a.
Meanwhile the torpedo flotillas tried to cover the turn by a gallant attack on the British battle line.
After Jutland the British flotillasalso were painted the battleship gray.
When morning came our main fleet could find no trace of the enemy to the southward, but our destroyer-flotillas further north had been very busy with enemy ships, apparently running for the Horns Reef Channel.
Our flotillas were strung out far and wide on this job.
He burned Armagh and drove out St. Patrick's successor, and then took up a central position near Athlone, whence his flotillas could act on Lough Ree and Lough Dearg.
The flotillas which Brian maintained on inland waters, and the sea-going vessels which attended his army in the North, were all manned by Danes, and a mercantile marine has in every age been the best nursery of naval power.
Accordingly, he "maneuvered so as to remain between the Germans and their base, placing flotillas of destroyers where they could protect the fleet and attack the heavy German ships.
As night fell the whole of the destroyer flotillas of Heligoland, Borkum, and Westerland Sylt shaped a course for British waters.
Orders were immediately given for the east-coast defences to be on the qui vive, and for the Nore, Harwich, Rosyth, and Dundee flotillasof destroyers and submarines to put to sea.
Our destroyer flotillas could then lie in wait for the American fleet, and it will be a case of Tshusima over again.
Flotillas of canoes come from Makara, Ukonju, Unyampaka, Ankori and Ruanda, loaded with grain, to barter for this article.
Zeebrugge was getting too hot to hold the German torpedo-boat flotillas that for months had existed under nerve-racking conditions in that Belgian port.
Save for rare excursions on the part of the German torpedo flotillas and the occasional "sweeps" of Beatty's light cruisers and destroyers nothing afloat was likely to pass that way.
As I lay on the snow gazing upward, I became aware that there were several flotillas of clouds of from seven to twenty each, and these were moving toward every point of the compass.
Heavier cloud-flotillas followed, and these floated on the forest sea, touching the treetops with the gentleness of a lover's hand.
This time the two flotillas passed at such close quarters that a man could have thrown a line from one ship to the deck of its opponent.
By this time the flotillashad again passed each other.
How often in bygone days, he wondered, had Chinese, Korean, or Japanese flotillas passed under its walls up and down the Yalu?
The attack on Ostende in May, 1798, was directed against the lock gates for the purpose of interfering with the concentration of the flotillas destined for the invasion of England.
The three North Sea flotillasof twenty-four boats were conducting exercises in the Irish Sea, whither they had been despatched after the grand naval manœuvres were over.
On their side, without the Bismarck, which had fallen out of the line, they had nine ships in action and two intact flotillas of torpedo craft to bring to bear.
You might as well expect an army to march without legs as to carry on a war in America without fleets of sea-going ships andflotillas of inland small craft, even down to the birchbark canoe.
The night fighting was done by the light craft; and it was here that Jellicoe had so much need of Tyrwhitt's flotillas from Harwich.
The contest between the rival destroyer flotillas was of short duration.
A signal lamp flickered from the flagship:-- "All destroyer flotillas proceed to support the light-cruisers.
From the flagship of the admiral commanding the destroyer flotillas came a signal:-- "Proceed to N.
This method illustrates the power of magnetic influence, and catches up flotillas of dust motes which the duster would possibly disturb, but not remove.
It sets in motion flotillas of dust, stifling and suffocating to an extreme.
When war was declared two flotillas of destroyers were at once sent to Queenstown to assist in chasing and sinking submarines, and were placed under the command of Admiral William S.
The very first contingent of American overseas fighting forces was made up of two flotillas of destroyers, which upon the declaration of war had been sent to Queenstown where they were placed under the command of Admiral William S.
At midnight on the 12th of April, the fourth and fifth destroyer flotillas and the fourteenth torpedo flotilla reached Port Arthur roadstead, having with them under escort the mining ship, the Koryo Maru.
In this duty the destroyer and torpedo-boat flotillas rendered admirable service.
When the steamers with their accompanying flotillas were well on their way, a strong southeasterly breeze sprang up, which rapidly freshened into a gale.
He succeeded in putting one of his torpedo-boats into fighting condition, and steamed to the rendezvous, where he found that the otherflotillas had already left.
Two flotillas of our destroyers were outside Port Arthur, as instructed, from the night of the 21st till the morning of the 22nd.
We were within gun-shot, and had exchanged broadsides with the batteries, when the flotillas gained a small harbour, which prevented our making any further attempts.
This was an active and dangerous service, as the enemy had every advantage in the sands and shoals, and hardly a day passed in which we were not engaged with the flotillas and batteries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flotillas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
