In the path of the three big liners were drawn up the Selkirk and the ten destroyers of the Devonport flotilla, formed in line abreast, with intervals of two miles between each vessel, so as to cover as wide an extent of sea as possible.
The old oar-driven galleys, with their heavy batteries in the bows and all the guns pointing ahead, went into battle, as at Lepanto, in line abreast.
The divisions followed each other in succession, each in a wedge formation, the flagship of the division in the centre with the rest of the ships to port and starboard, not in line abreast, but each a little behind the other.
Admiral Ting formed his ships in line abreast, that is side by side with every bow towards the enemy.
The battleships were in line abreast as I came up on deck, and holding a course which brought the wind and seas abeam.
This is the first known instance of the use of the term 'line abreast.
The four orders here given are supplementary to them, providing for the formation of line abreast, and for forming from that order a line ahead to port or starboard.
De la Jonquière Anson says: 'At daybreak I made the signal for the fleet to spread in a line abreast, each ship keeping at the distance of a mile from the other [Article V.
May, and the six ships of the Japanese armoured cruiser division were steaming northward in line abreast, when the Tokiwa, which was the easternmost ship, reported smoke low down on the eastern horizon.
Then the signal was given by wireless for the main fleet to proceed on a north-westerly course, in an extended formation of line abreast, with the destroyers scouting on both wings, and a great shout of "Banzai Nippon!
The Spanish tactics, as compared with that of the English, was antiquated, being based on the formation of line abreast and a close order, which hampered the manœuvring of individual ships and impeded the use of broadsides.
The English idea of a crescent formation was due to their attacking the rear squadron which sailed in line abreast.
The tactical formation by line abreast, too, was faulty, since the broadsides were masked--a proof of how little the Spanish officers realized that their best weapon was the gun.
The approach was leisurely, nearly in line abreast, on a course slightly diagonal to that of the enemy.
For a long time after this fight, an exaggerated view was held regarding the value of ramming, line abreast formation, and bow fire.
There remains the alternative that the fleet attacking in line abreast--a course it could only follow from windward--might endeavour to steer through the enemy and engage him on the lee side.
Selecting sixteen of his best and strongest vessels, he arranged them in a line abreast--that is to say, side by side, stretched from north to south.
De Ruyter's fleet had come down in line abreast, stretching from north to south.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "line abreast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
