convoyers

To a landsman it was incomprehensible how it was possible for us to pursue our zigzag course in the inky blackness and avoid collisions, particularly when it was borne in mind that our ship was English and our convoyers were Japanese.

War in the Garden of Eden Kermit Roosevelt 1916

[A news letter of August 19th (Salisbury), gives the following account of this affair: -- "The Earl of Sandwich being on the Norway coast, ordered Sir Thomas Teddeman with 20 ships to attack 50 Dutch merchant ships in Bergen harbour; six convoyers had so placed themselves that only four or five of the ships could be reached at once.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

[A news letter of August 19th (Salisbury), gives the following account of this affair: -- "The Earl of Sandwich being on the Norway coast, ordered Sir Thomas Teddeman with 20 ships to attack 50 Dutch merchant ships in Bergen harbour; six convoyers had so placed themselves that only four or five of the ships could be reached at once.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

[A news letter of August 19th (Salisbury), gives the following account of this affair: - "The Earl of Sandwich being on the Norway coast, ordered Sir Thomas Teddeman with 20 ships to attack 50 Dutch merchant ships in Bergen harbour; six convoyers had so placed themselves that only four or five of the ships could be reached at once.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1665 Pepys, Samuel 1665