"navy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Commissioned into a peacetime navy curtailed by a retrenching Congress, the undermanned four stacker departed Boston, Massachusetts 25 June to join DesRon 3, Atlantic Fleet.
- The admirals buzzed, mostly with bafflement since they weren't too bright or they would have enlisted in the peacetime navy.
- Due to the restrictions in the size of the peacetime navy, Reynolds was not actually promoted to lieutenant until 1777, following the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
- Despite the Cold War, the RCN was operating as a peacetime navy, so its first recruits through HMCS Cornwallis endured a 5-month new entry course.
- The boats also used a lot of high octane gasoline for their size, making them too expensive to operate for a peacetime navy.
- She'd just destroyed an entire peacetime navy in less than five minutes of actual combat.
- He disliked the peacetime navy, with its endless social engagements, partying and ritual displays.
- If all we face is the eighty galleys of Haarahld's peacetime navy, then wehave a decisive superiority at this moment.
- He was unsuccessful as there were too few ships in the peacetime navy and Hood did not intercede on his behalf.
- Scotland, meanwhile, seems to have maintained no peacetime navy.
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