"naval" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In 2002 a short naval skirmish over disputed fishing territory killed four South Korean sailors, further chilling relations.
- This incident helped fuel increasing tensions between the two governments and an even larger naval skirmish was fought the next year.
- The Georgian Navy attempted to intervene, but was defeated in a naval skirmish.
- On the evening of 10 August a naval skirmish between the Russian task-force and several Georgian naval vessels took place.
- Georgian Naval Forces were defeated with the loss of a coast guard cutter during a naval skirmish off Abkhazia.
- William Claiborne, the trader on Kent Island, resisted the new settlement and conducted some naval skirmishes against it.
- Just last year, the two countries engaged in a fierce naval skirmish in the Yellow Sea, raising anew the prospect of war across the border.
- It did not mention the naval skirmish last Saturday in the Yellow Sea in which 4 South Koreans were killed and 19 wounded.
- Following the naval skirmish the two destroyers began bombarding the city.
- The Bahia incident was a naval skirmish fought in late 1864 during the American Civil War.
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