On their way up the coast there had been several occasions when, for a brief space of time, as a cloud was encountered, the onrushing fleet of seaplanes was swathed in a flurry of blinding snow.
It is in hopes of balking that, as well as accomplishing other results that more than thirty seaplanes will make this stupendous raid on their submarine bases at Ostend, Zeebrugge and Blankenberghe.
We want him to see the astonishing sight of such a mass of darting seaplanes descending on his coast towns like a flock of eagles, and destroying military property, not citizens' private homes, mind you.
The air was fairly filled with buzzing seaplanes of various patterns, jockeying for position much as is seen on the race course before the signal to start is given by the firing of a pistol.
Already the leading seaplanes had passed over the watering place known as Ostend and which before the war had been a famous summer resort.
What could they do against thirty big seaplanes such as we've got with us?
While the loading was being finished, at his urgent request, Frank entered into a brief description of what they had seen the fleet of seaplanes accomplish.
We'll give an exhibition of all the Sea Eagle is capable of doing in a way to make those other seaplanes look sick.
He has some knowledge of this raid, and if we let him go it may mean a great disaster to the fleet of seaplanes taking part in the dash up the coast.
Sometimes they would wireless for seaplanes to come out and bomb our submarines, but as, almost up to the end of the war, the Huns used bombs which touched off and burst on the surface of the water, they had little success.
As they came up with them they saw they were five Hun seaplanes waiting to attack our patrols, sitting on the water in order to conserve petrol.
Low down on the horizon he saw a flight of float seaplanes approaching.
Float seaplanes were not very seaworthy, breaking up quickly in rough water; and many a brave lad, down at sea in them with engine trouble, has been drowned.
The remaining four enemy seaplanes drew off, and the boats carried on.
Senior Naval Officers under whose command for operations there were float seaplanes and boats.
Five enemy seaplanes dived out of a cloud in formation and settled on their tail.
During 1917 this squadron, which used an average of only eight boats a month, sighted forty-seven enemy submarines and bombed twenty-five, besides destroying enemy seaplanes and bringing down a Zeppelin in flames.
The pilots of the five seaplanes started their engines, scuttered along the water, leaving five white streaks behind them, and took to the air in a good V formation.
All military and naval aeronautical material under a most exhaustive definition must be surrendered within three months, except for the 100 seaplanes already specified.
The armed forces of Germany must not include any military or naval air forces except for not over 100 unarmed seaplanes to be retained till October 1 to search for submarine mines.
She was discovered in a most secluded branch of the Rufiji River, and ultimately destroyed by seaplanes and monitors in her impenetrable lair.
He fondly believed that he could entice our vessels into this dangerous area, where his submarines, together with the seaplanes and Zeppelins which were in readiness on the island, would make short work of them.
On 11th February thirty-four of our seaplanes and aeroplanes made another attack on Zeebrugge, under the leadership of Commander Samson, whose daring has already been mentioned in these pages.
News of this raid had been sent to the station of the Royal Naval Air Service at Dunkirk, and eight seaplanes at once set out to intercept the Zeppelin.
But the cleverest development of the aeroplane-submarine idea involved the use of seaplanes for the purpose of launching submarine torpedoes at enemy ships.
All military and naval aeronautical material under a most exhaustive definition must be surrendered within three months except for the 100 seaplanes already specified.
To make this method of locating submarines even fairly reliable an enormous fleet of seaplanes would be required.
When a mine-field is discovered by either destroyers or seaplanes these vessels are immediately dispatched to destroy it; and they are aided, in the case of the British Navy, by a large flotilla of steam trawlers.
In the meantime the attached destroyers and seaplanes can be searching for new fields.
Cairo is also likely to be an important base for seaplanesand flying boats plying up and down the tremendous waterways of the Nile and the Great Lakes.
It was further stated that machines for naval reconnaissance were working from several East Coast stations, and that lighters to carry seaplanes for more extended reconnaissance and offensive work were under construction.
The airmen piloted seaplanes and succeeded in dropping a number of bombs in the vicinity of Cuxhaven, in an attempt to bring out into the open a portion of the German fleet lying there.
One of these was destroyed nine miles from the coast by naval seaplanes and a patrol boat.
There was work awaiting the battleplane in France--work of far more importance than engaging individual hostile seaplanes in the neighbourhood of the Cattegat.
Being unprovided with floats like those fitted to naval seaplanes the machine took the water clumsily.
Should the submarine prove to be German, she could either shell the battleplane from a distance or else summon, by means of wireless, Zeppelins and seaplanes to finish off the helpless aircraft by means of bombs.
A fleet of hostile seaplanes was approaching with the evident intention of making it hot for the British submarine.
Whenever the comparatively limited range of seaplanes precluded their employment for long-range reconnaissances or bombardment, airships were called upon to carry out these duties.
The Russians had merely small sea craft such as torpedo boats and submarines in this engagement, but their seaplanes proved very effective, and the Germans retired with a cruiser and two torpedo boats damaged.
The use of seaplanes to attack merchantmen and smaller warcraft became a feature of the Austrian and German campaign, and in November and December, 1915, several attacks were reported on steamers of the Allies.
Cruisers and destroyers approached German positions on an unnamed bay of the North Sea, and a squadron of British seaplanesrose from the vessels.
But before we could have the powerful fighting machines, the big cross country fliers and the seaplanes of to-day, there were many difficulties of construction which had to be met and solved.
Just a paragraph to the effect that "Several seaplanes last night bombed Zeebrugge or Cuxhaven.
I heard also that seaplanes have been called upon to serve at all sorts of tasks on the dismal briny.
The Italian seaplanes and their escorts did not spare themselves.
But in order that the seaplanes may fulfill their work of observation with safety they must be defended from enemy airplanes and must, therefore, be escorted by chasing machines.
The destroyers and motor patrols were everywhere, and above them flew the seaplanes with observers who could peer down through a hundred feet of water.
Our seaplanes roared away, rising one after the other from our carrying-ships like huge seagulls, and Herr Zeppelin melted into the far-off background of clouds.
The Birchgrove was attacked by two seaplanes carrying torpedoes--a novel adaptation.
Seaplanes are out, hawking with swoop and wheel for sight of strange fish.
Now the hum and drone that has puzzled us in the fog reveals itself as the note of a covey of seaplanes searching the waters ahead.
Under the terms of the armistice the Germans agreed to render all naval seaplanes unfit for use by removing their propellers, machine-guns, and bomb-dropping equipment, and dismantling their wireless and ignition systems.
Concrete runways sloped down to both strands, so that seaplanes could be launched in either direction.
When the weather was really clear the boot was generally on the other foot, for then the seaplanes were usually driven off before they could get overhead.
Altercations with Hun seaplanes were by no means uncommon, and their novelty soon wore off.
At about five in the afternoon one of our seaplanes came out to observe and spot our fall of shot; this was the only way in which any accurate results could be obtained.
The seaplanes in the Dardanelles have done much excellent work, and are extensively used in observing for the ships engaged in bombarding Turkish gun positions.
Will you in your turn assist me in getting theseaplanes arriving here in Ganges?
One of our lumbering seaplanes went up after it like an owl in sunlight, but could rise no higher than the masts of the Fleet.
There are also some seaplanes with us but they are not under Samson, and are purely for naval purposes.
All landing places are now commanded by lines of trenches and are ranged by field guns and howitzers, which, thus far, cannot be located as our navalseaplanes are too heavy to rise out of rifle range.
Austrian seaplanes dropped bombs at several points on the Carso without causing casualties or damage.
They also claimed that eight German seaplanes counterattacked, but were repulsed by machine-gun fire, and that as the result of the bombing and the air fight not fewer than eight German machines were destroyed or put out of action.
The alarm was given immediately and a squadron of British seaplanes was sent after the invader.
He tried to recall whether he'd seen any seaplanes since arriving in England.
They were the observer and pilot of one of the seaplanes attached to the Rovuma column, their base being close to a large sheet of water formed by the inundation of the river.
One of our seaplanes did the trick, sir; only we were within a brace of shakes of plugging her with a 14-inch shell at the same time.
Aided by wireless from the seaplanesthat serenely hovered over the German defence, the monitors' guns had wrought terrific destruction upon the fixed positions amongst the sand-dunes.
As it tore along, its obliquely-pointed quick-firer spat venomously at the British seaplanes until a bomb, falling quite a hundred feet from the car, tore a deep hole in the roadway.
It seemed as if nothing in the vicinity could escape the concentrated fire from the German guns, yet serenely the seaplanesheld on their course, tilting slightly under the violent disturbance of the air.
To add to the horrors of the scene bombs from the British seaplanes were still falling.
The escort was attacked by two Zeppelins and several hostile seaplanes and submarines, but the Zeppelins were easily put to flight, the seaplanes missed the British ships, and the submarines were avoided.
The forces afloat were supplemented by five squadrons of four seaplanes each, with a squadron of eight aeroplanes, and four airships.
This was modest as compared with France and Germany, but in view of British superiority in seaplanes it was sufficient.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seaplanes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
