The naval contingent nodded sagely at that remark.

I want them back with the naval contingent.

The naval contingent consisted of seven gunboats and a tug.

The German naval contingent (numbering four to Britain's eight) followed the British lead in operational terms.

Complementing the American naval contingent were the Vietnamese Navy's 655 ships, assault craft, patrol boats, and other vessels.

Britain, like the United States, has maintained a longstanding naval contingent in the gulf.

There they met the naval contingent, and on January 11 they set sail.

The "katepano of the Bucellarians and the Paphlagonians", whose seal is attested in the 10th century, was the commander of this naval contingent.

Captain Henry A. Schade was appointed as the head of the naval contingent.

In 1415, he led a naval contingent that accompanied Minyekyawswa's land forces that invaded the Irrawaddy delta.