Because of the calm conditions it was not until after 11 am, five hours after first sighting each other, that the two fleets engaged.

Over the following two days the fleets remained close to one another, but did not engage again.

And sooner or later, this fleet must engage the Syndics again.

I will summon you when it appears as though our fleet will engage the Black forces.

Further he ordered that fleet should not engage unless it would have clear superiority in artillery (3 : 2).

The two fleets engaged in a brief but intense naval battle off the shores of Cuba.

"Can our fleet complete the turn and make hyperspace before the main fleets engage?"

Soon afterwards, the two fleets engaged again, off the coast of Holland.

On May 15 it became necessary to supplement the fleet engaged at Danzig.

No fleets in history had ever engaged one another at such a preposterous range.