The troopshipslay in the harbours, the men were ready in camp, why not embark?
Disembarking, they filed round the wharves to where two troopships lay opposite each other, and embarked again on H.
Williams) at the Army general headquarters, chiefly for the purpose of rendering assistance in effecting cooperation as to the handling and routing of troopships and of cargo vessels consigned to Army account.
No convoy of troopshipshas failed to be met by destroyer escort before entering the area of submarine activity, and no passenger intrusted to the care of the United States naval forces in France has been lost.
The great harbour of Lemnos is gradually filling; we had about thirty troopships in the inner harbour, and before lunch seven were lying in the outer.
Instead of landing us from troopships we all go on battleships, which seems to us to be an improvement.
The general idea was to send the Invincible Armada up the English Channel as far as the Netherlands, where Parma would be ready with a magnificent Spanish army waiting aboard troopshipsfor safe conduct into England.
Instead of sending the fighting fleet to try to clear the way for the troopships coming later on, Philip mixed army and navy together.
One of the troopships was very slow and could only do about seven-and-a-half knots, which delayed the convoy a lot.
At this time we had taken to sleeping on deck because of the heat, and in the middle of that night I woke up just as we were passing three Indian troopships which were tied up to the eastern bank of the Canal.
The war with Japan was now officially over but mopping-up would still take some time and troopshipsof pink Brits were constantly passing; we used to cheer them up by yelling, "Get yer knees brown, Pinky.
Many of the old stagers among us were fried to a deep brown and could easily pass for natives and some used to swim out to the troopships and emulating the natives dive for pennies thrown by the unsuspecting pink Brits.
Among the troopships I made out the Kaiserin Auguste Luise and the Deutschland, on both of which I had crossed the summer following the Great Peace.
These German soldiers in the troopships are our prisoners.
Troopships are arriving every day, and every fighting man is being hurried up to the Front, and they cannot block the lines and trains with all these big hospitals yet.
Troopships full of French and English troops are leaving Havre every day, for Belgium.
All their steamers, except those engaged in the postal service, were requisitioned by the Egyptian Government, and, deprived of their handsome fittings and luxurious accommodation, now figured as troopships between Belianeh and Assouan.
After dark the troopships moved off to the east, followed later on by the men-of-war.
It is also plain that their mission is to destroy the convoy escort and sink the troopships that are nearing these waters--troopships that convey the entire One Hundred and Seventeenth Division of the United States Army.
Though the crew knew nothing of Germany's proposed big submarine drive directed at the troopships conveying the One Hundred and Seventeenth Division, yet every marine and sailor felt that something unusual was in the wind.
Because, so far, in every encounter with naval vessels or troopships the Hun has seemed fated to get the worst of it.
On orders from the commander of the destroyer flotilla, other troopships halted long enough to take on the rescued ones.
He did some rapid calculating as to the length of the line of troopships sailing in the regular order.
Nowhere on any of the troopships did a light glow that could, by any possibility, be seen by those aboard another craft.
It is mainly, as I view it, a question of how many troopships we are likely to lose, and how big a loss of soldier life we shall suffer.
The Huns are bully at sinking unarmed freighters, but so far, if they know anything about getting convoyed troopships they haven't used much of their knowledge.
With all their submarines and all their bluster the Huns don't do enough damage to our troopships to make it worth all the bother they have to take.
No matter how many subs there may be about, they know better than to expose themselves with so many destroyers around and all the troopships armed.
From the head of the squadron came back the signalled order: "All troopships zigzag!
It was decided, however, that a combined fleet of British and American patrol boats should be in readiness to swoop down and save lives in case any of the American troopships should be torpedoed.
The almost simultaneous barking of guns from three troopships and from two destroyers called swift attention to the fact that the fusillade was aimed at a periscope off starboard.
The fresh arrivals on the troopships brought with them like a breeze from the homeland that atmosphere of glowing optimism which prevailed in England in the early August days.
The Australian Government, under request, then began to provide transport staffs who came with the troopships and returned at later intervals when the troopships went back again as "hospital carriers.
Tons of literature of all descriptions were put upon the troopships at the port of embarkation.
And only a typical Sunday, for on scores of troopships Sundays of a similar character were spent.
An enemy could easily bribe the owners of a few petty craft to sink their vessels, and thus completely to block up troopships in the Canal.
Even without such designs our troopships are frequently delayed in passing through owing to accidents of all sorts.
This time the submarine was to act jointly with a convoy protecting the passage of troopships across the English Channel to Calais, and thence into action off Zeebrugge against the German destroyers making that port their rendezvous.
The men of the Dewey soon learned that the troopships which they were escorting carried a number of regiments of marines and several detachments of U.
When the vexatious health-rules were relaxed, and troopshipslanded some of their passengers, there was endless fraternisation, eager discussion of coming operations, and unlimited denunciation of the common foe.
You shall stay with her, but only till we can send you on to one of the troopships with female nurses on board.
To the eastward of these about half the fleet of the League, in but little better condition, was advancing in now overwhelming force upon them, and behind these again a swarm of troopships and transports were heading out from the French shore.
A delay of twenty-four hours was caused by one of the troopships grounding on a sand bank in the harbor, but on Sunday, Aug.
The first evening out the Psyche signaled "Whereabouts of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau still unknown; troopships to extinguish all lights and proceed with only shaded lights at bow and stern.
The advance detachment of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force which was ordered to seize German Samoa left Wellington in two troopships at dawn on Aug.
Yet the men upon our merchant convoys andtroopships saw submarines scattered all over the sea.
A few dirigibles, located on the flanks of a convoy, protected them almost as effectively as the destroyers themselves; and even a single airship not infrequently brought a group of merchantmen and troopships safely into port.
That the destroyers, aircraft, and other patrols were safely escorting troopships and other vessels across the Channel was a fact of which the British public was justly proud.
Like all convoys, the troopships began zigzagging as soon as they entered the danger zone; and this in itself made it almost impossible for a submarine to get its bearings and take good aim.
Apparently it became the policy of the German Admiralty, as I have said, to concentrate their U-boats on merchant shipping and leave the American troopships practically alone--at least those bound to Europe.
We estimated that the convoys and troopships reported that they had sighted about 300 submarines for every submarine which was actually in the field.
The six destroyers which escorted our first troopships from America to France were promptly assigned to duty with our forces in Irish waters.
One could have concentrated them only on certain routes; but whether the troopships would choose the same routes at the same time was the question.
It was not possible to direct the submarines against troopships exclusively.
Had the German people not been promised that their U-boats would sink any American troopships that attempted to cross the ocean?
A convoy of four or five large troopshipswould be surrounded by as many as ten or a dozen destroyers.
They say the troopships will carry the mail with them; and taking mine as far as Montreal, perhaps Little York, it can be forwarded overland to Penetang.
If he has room on his troopshipsto take them, we could," was the answer.
For purposes of convenience, the expedition was divided into contingents, each contingent including troopships and a naval escort designed to keep off such German raiders as might be met.
There were several other troopships in our company, a brisk convoy of cruisers and destroyers and overhead a humming fleet of seaplanes.
From every other port of size in Australia other troopships had come laden.
Then the news arrived that the troopships were timed to reach Hogg's Bay at one o'clock in the morning.
The engines pulsed; the troopships moved and gathered speed.
Presently the two white troopships loomed up in the offing, entered the shelter of the bay, and dropped anchor.
Cheers upon cheers rose from her decks, and, before their echoes could be heard, a thousand voices on the troopships cheered in response.
The worthy commander of the Protector arranged the speed of the ship so as to reach Hogg's Bay just prior to the hour at which the troopships were expected.
Homeward from Canada and, latterly, from the United States the troopshipsare formed in large convoys under the ocean escort of a cruiser.
Usually, vessels of moderate speed are accompanied by sloops or armed drifters, but the fast troopshipsrequire destroyers for their protection.
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