However the flotilla was largely manned by Royal Navy personnel.

The radio room as well as the emergency craft of the Coastguard are largely manned by volunteers.

The squadron was largely manned by RNZAF pilots from New Zealand.

The rapidly growing merchant fleets of the world were already largely manned by 'lascar' seamen who left a deposit of small coloured populations in the major international ports.

In the 1970s La Salle fielded an excellent soccer team, largely manned by Latin students who grew up playing the game.

Starting in 1645, the New Model Army raised by Oliver Cromwell to overthrow Charles I during the English Civil War was largely manned by impressment.

Brigade of Gurkhas, light infantry unit of the British Army largely manned by ethnic Nepali.

The Classis Germanica (Rhine flotilla), largely manned by Batavi, was seized by Civilis.

They were organised from divisions initially raised in the 3rd wave of mobilisation, these being former Landwehr divisions largely manned by second-line reservists.

Napier's victory, with a fleet largely manned by British seamen, was viewed in Britain as a credit to the Royal Navy.