Torpedoed Sentence Examples

Two coastal motor boats, CMB24 and 30, dashed ahead and torpedoed the piers.

On April 18th, the cross-Channel steamer ' Sussex ' was torpedoed without warning.

In May 1915, Margaret was returning from the United States on the Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German submarine.

The vessel was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine, 12 miles south by west of Anvil Point; 28 people were killed.

On 2 May 1982 HMS Conqueror torpedoed the Argentine cruiser the General Belgrano.

Our boys in the torpedoed ship either burned to death or jumped over the side into a blazing sea of oil.

Both were torpedoed by German U-boats off the west coast of neutral Ireland.

Included were a number of Norwegian seamen who had been torpedoed by a German submarine in the area.

Norman Holbrook, successfull y passed the mine-fields of the Straits and torpedoed the old Turkish battleship " Messudieh " at anchor.

Hamilton made Imbros his headquarters, and troops also were sometimes collected there owing to its vicinity both to Helles and to Anzac. Within the Dardanelles the battleship " Goliath " had been torpedoed by the Turkish destroyer " Muavenet-i-Milliye " on May 13; on the other hand British submarines were performing invaluable service, diving under the mine-fields, causing havoc amongst enemy craft in the channel itself and higher up, and threatening Ottoman communications with the peninsula.

In addition, the Austrian boats numbered about 11, large and small, and one of these torpedoed the French cruiser " Leon Gambetta " in Ionian waters on April 27.