In 1791 he was advised that the government would send out two convoys of convicts annually, plus adequate supplies.

In 1943, he also directed two Allied propaganda films for the National Film Board of Canada, including Action Stations, about the Royal Canadian Navy's escorting of convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic.

On 27 August 1939, after two days of packing, truck convoys began to leave Paris.

In addition, the two navies shared a system of signals by which each could recognize the other ’ s warships at sea, and allowed merchantmen of their respective nations to join each other's convoys.

On a typical day, three convoys transit the canal, two southbound and one northbound.

A second British assault on Santiago de Cuba which also ended in failure and a naval action which arose from an accidental encounter between two convoys.

In the 17th century fleets could consist of almost a hundred ships of various sizes, but by the middle of the 18th century, ship-of-the-line design had settled on a few standard types: older two-deckers ( i. e., with two complete decks of guns firing through side ports ) of 50 guns ( which were too weak for the battle line but could be used to escort convoys ), two-deckers of between 64 and 90 guns that formed the main part of the fleet, and larger three-or even four-deckers with 98 to 140 guns that served as admirals ' command ships.

As ships of the Mediterranean Fleet covered troop movements to Greece, intelligence was received reporting the sailing of an Italian battle fleet with one battleship, six heavy and two light cruisers plus destroyers to attack the convoys.

Although these convoys were not strictly legal, the two men in charge of the business, Kon and Heller ( who were in the service of the Gestapo and through them could run many such ventures ), paid the guards at the ghetto gate to turn a blind eye at a prearranged time and allow the carts through.

A series of attacks on small parties and convoys in June prompted retaliatory raids by McDonnell on local villages, including a bayonet raid on the Pokokaikai pā north of Hawera on 1 August 1866, in which two men and a woman were killed.

The last British troops left on the morning of 18 June in two convoys of small merchant ships and headed for Plymouth.

In the morning they evacuated the city in two large convoys, one moved north towards Haifa and the other south towards Bethlehem.

Panzer-Regiment — arrived in North Africa aboard two convoys between 8 and 10 March 1941.

Because of war with England, the first two convoys of ships and settlers bound for the colony were waylaid near Gaspé by British privateers under the command of three French-Scottish Huguenot brothers, David, Louis and Thomas Kirke.

The division proceeded overseas in 1942, with its two main convoys reaching the United Kingdom in August and October.

The division crossed the Atlantic in two main convoys at the end of 1939, with additional troops reaching the UK at the beginning of February 1940.

An urgent supply convoy from Gibraltar to Alexandria ( Operation Tiger ) coincided with reinforcements for the Mediterranean Fleet, two small convoys from Egypt to Malta, and 48 more Hurricanes flown off HMS Ark Royal and ( Operation Splice ).

The main one was the Caribbean Spanish West Indies fleet or Flota de Indias, which departed in two convoys from Seville, where the Casa de Contratación was based, bound for ports such as Veracruz, Portobelo and Cartagena before making a rendezvous at Havana in order to return together to Spain.

Only two convoys were captured ; one in 1628 when it was captured by the Dutch, and another in 1656, captured by the English, but by then the convoys were a shadow of what they had been at their peak at the end of the previous century.

– In the third day of enemy harassment of convoys along Highway 14 in Kontum Province, an estimated force of two NVA companies attacked a 4th Div convoy 14 miles south of Kontum with mortar, recoilless rifle, small arms, and rocket and machinegun fire.

Confederacy raided British merchantment and guarded convoys until 18 April 1781, when she was forced to surrender to two British ships, Roebuck and Orpheus.

Mauriceforce, their convoys delayed by thick fog, were evacuated from Namsos on 2 May, though two of their rescue ships, the French destroyer Bison and the British destroyer Afridi were sunk by Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers.

On 3 November 1982 two military convoys ( 2211 and 2212 ) collided in the Salang tunnel causing a traffic jam.

With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.

She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.

With Raphael, he remained on the friendliest terms, and when he departed from Rome, left in his hands two unfinished pictures which Raphael completed.

The two individuals departed for Iraq but did not return, so al-Libi was not in a position to know if any training had taken place.

The Mahavansa relates that following the repudiation of Kuveni by Vijaya, in favour of a " Kshatriya " princess from the " Pandya " country, their two children, a boy and a girl, departed to the region of " Sumanakuta " ( Adam's Peak in the Ratnapura District ), where they multiplied, giving rise to the Veddhas.

" Louis departed greatly from all cornet players in his ability to compose a close-knit individual 32 measures with all phrases compatible with each other …," Spurrier told the biographers Sudhalter and Evans, " so Bix and I always credited Louis as being the father of the correlated chorus: play two measures, then two related, making four measures, on which you played another four measures related to the first four, and so on ad infinitum to the end of the chorus.

Scripps wound up giving the agency away to two inexperienced businessmen, Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler, originally associated with two better-known partners, who soon departed.

Somers left three volunteers – Carter, Chard and Waters – behind on Bermuda ( two when the Deliverance and Patience had departed, and the third following the Patience's return ) to maintain the claim of the island for the England, leaving the Virginia Company in possession of the island.

Settlers departed aboard the Eendragt on 1 July, but the expedition was ill-starred: the ship hit two large storms and suffered from fire before reaching its destination, where it was raided by English privateers persecuting the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

Sigismund returned to his ship on the same day, arriving in Gdańsk next day, and after approximately two weeks he had departed to Kraków, where he was crowned on 27 December of that year.

In that period, they released two albums and ten singles, with two more singles released after Morrison departed the band.

Before the convoy had departed for the church, Minh was reported to have gestured to Nhung with two fingers.

Before the convoy had departed for the church, Minh was reported to have gestured to Nhung with two fingers.

Over the next two years they recorded the albums The Gilded Palace of Sin ( 1969 ) and Burrito Deluxe ( 1970 ), which helped establish the respectability and parameters of the genre, before Parsons departed to pursue a solo career.

Terl Bryant departed the band between these two albums, and Frank Van Essen returned to fill the vacant spot, playing drums as well as violin, which could be heard on the band's 2000 album, Open Sky.

The KC-135 tankers departed in October 1993 and the B-52H's were split between the two remaining B-52 bases at Barksdale and Minot ; Sawyer's final B-52 left for Minot in November 1994.

The " Scaroons " is / are mentioned twice in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, as a place seen by Hawkeye ( Natty Bumppo ), Chingachgook and Uncas after they had departed Horicon ( the name used by Cooper for Lake George ) while traveling northward chasing Magua and his two captives, Cora and Alice Munro.

After this episode, Father Burba departed St. Mary's, and the split between the two nationalities became permanent, with the Lithuanians forming their own congregation.

Primus originally formed in 1984 with Claypool and guitarist Todd Huth, later joined by Lane, though the latter two departed the band at the end of 1988.

When Lord departed, two members joined the troupe, Mary Corpe and Lee Ward.

With two female singers, the original lineup was unusual for the time, and indeed, never performed live, as the Woods departed the band shortly after the release of their debut album, Hark!

In 1989, two long-term members departed the band.