Examples of using Were sunk in English and their translations into French
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The others, including the destroyer Hamakaze, were sunk during the same attack,
twenty American ships were sunk and 157 damaged by enemy action.
Tatsukami Maru-and patrol boat P-37 were sunk in torpedo attacks.
Arizona, California, Oklahoma, and West Virginia were sunk during the attack.
U-73 six ships were sunk and several others were damaged.
ACASTA belonging to the English Fleet, were sunk.
two of the ships in Bishop's convoy were sunk, with a number of lives lost.
No ships were sunk but both fleets took very heavy casualties with around 3,000 killed
Bismarck, Tirpitz, and Scharnhorst were sunk during the war and Gneisenau was scuttled in Gotenhafen in 1945.
Prior to D-Day, they were sunk in the Thames to conceal them from the enemy.
Over the weekend of 18-21 November six other neutral ships were sunk off the English coast,
Million tons of the 14 million tons lost by the Allies were sunk in the Mediterranean.
their development was not completed before the Shōkaku-class ships were sunk.
Most were sunk or scuttled, and at least eight foundered on rocks trying to negotiate the way down the unfamiliar
Two ships of the class were sunk in action: Atlanta
Eight ships of the class were sunk by submarines, and two by mines,
Two of the class(Sheffield and Coventry) were sunk in action during the Falklands War of 1982.
Two massive piers, containing over 70,000 tons of concrete, were sunk into the river bed to support the construction.
Astoria, Quincy and Vincennes were sunk in the Battle of Savo Island, 8- 9 Aug 1942.
In the last engagement, Fiume and her sister ships Zara and Pola were sunk in a close-range night engagement with three British battleships.
