under convoy

He was sending them out under convoy, running fast and without lights until they were well clear of the estate.

Those vessels which remained under convoy were always held up by the slowest in the group.

Her alert action helped prevent damage or loss to the ships under convoy.

It is like a large fleet sailing under convoy.

But by a lucky chance the money- wagons were sighted at that moment, driving into camp under convoy of a troop of auxiliary horse.

On September 25, Raleigh sailed for Portsmouth, Virginia with a brig and a sloop under convoy.

She is noted under Convoy SC 63 as having come from HX 167.

She sailed from Havana 3 April 1800 with a number of merchant ships under convoy, arriving Philadelphia 12 April.

Running downstairs again as fast as she had run up, Miss Tox got the party out of the hackney-coach, and soon returned with it under convoy.

Number III, for instance: "No signals are to be made by the ships under convoy besides those appointed by the Commander thereof."

He smoothed out the paper and said: "Gentlemen -Signals and Instructions for Ships under Convoy .

'Numbers 243, Quit prizes or ships under convoy, and join the Admiral; 63, Anchor as soon as convenient; and 371, sir.

Frederick Huth left Spain during the Napoleonic Wars, with his family under convoy of the British squadron, and landed in England in 1809.

Baroness Riedesel embarked on a packet-ship on the 15th of April, 1777, in company with a fleet of thirty transports, under convoy of two ships of war.

Accordingly a Civil War Monitor, with one smooth-bore gun, managed by a crew of about twenty- one naval militia, was sent to the city in question, under convoy of a tug.

On the I3th Capt. Paulus Irving (1714-1796)was detached with several small parties under convoy of the Kennington to Grande-Rivière, Quebec.

At the start of US involvement in World War II, blackouts on the U.S. eastern seaboard were not in effect, and commercial ships were not travelling under convoy.

On September 15, dispatched by Wolfe at Gaspe Bay, Commander James Murray arrived under convoy of the Juno with 800 troops at the mouth of Miramichi Bay.

On 23 September 1779, they encountered the Baltic Fleet of 41 sail under convoy of HMS Serapis and HM hired armed vessel Countess of Scarborough near Flamborough Head.

When the Spaniards arrived in Cebu, the Italian chronicler, Antonio Pigafetta, sailing under convoy with the Magellan expedition, offered a baptismal gift to Hara Amihan, wife of Rajah Humabon.

In late December 1799 the American armed schooner Experiment was escorting under convoy the brig Daniel and Mary and the schooners Sea Flower, Mary, and Washington to prevent their capture by French privateers.

The title, in small type and neatly displayed between double rules, said:"SIGNALS and INSTRUCTIONS for SHIPS under CONVOY".

Standards, now in possession of the 19th hussars, were presented to it by George III, and early in 1782 it embarked, with other reinforcements, on board the East India fleet under convoy of Admiral Sir R. Bickerton, and landed at Madras towards the end of the year.

Crowds of pretty sisters in airy costumes, and meekly ignorant parents who had known no college in their youth, were under convoy in the same direction by brothers and sons bearing the opinion written large on them that no properly qualified human beings had lived on earth till they came to grace it here and now.