Examples of 'ships were ordered' in a sentence

Meaning of "ships were ordered"

The phrase 'ships were ordered' indicates that a request or instruction was placed to acquire or obtain ships. It suggests that a formal arrangement was made to have ships constructed, purchased, or deployed for a specific purpose

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ships were ordered
Ships were ordered to make for the open ocean.
This conclusion is reinforced by the fact that no new ships were ordered.
All ships were ordered to raise steam.
During his tenure as president, three new modern sister ships were ordered.
Two other ships were ordered but cancelled shortly afterwards.
These ships were postponed while the designs were updated and two ships were ordered in 1962.
A final two ships were ordered to a third modification of the draught.
After the conflict was resolved, the ships were ordered to continue their voyage.
Several new ships were ordered to replace wartime losses and to modernise the fleet.
The incomplete hulls of both ships were ordered scrapped in 1947.
All the ships were ordered to Alexandria to complete the reschedule.
From there, Congress and many other ships were ordered back to the United States.
Twenty ships were ordered but none were launched by the time of the Italian Armistice.
The crews of the two ships were ordered to get the ships ready to sail.
Five ships were ordered from Spanish shipbuilder Bazan now Navantia.

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Subsequently, another six ships were ordered which brought the class to 20 vessels.
Two ships were ordered by the Chinese, the Yangwei and the Chaoyong.
After coaling, both ships were ordered north but again Canopus broke down.
Two ships were ordered and constructed by the Indonesian state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL Persero.
The German ships were ordered back to Brest.
The ships were ordered in 1961 as part of a re-armament programme for defending Sweden 's coastline.
Initially, twelve ships were ordered based on the P-class design.
Two ships were ordered by the Chinese, Chaoyong and Yangwei.
Two further ships were ordered by the Portuguese Navy to replace them.
The ships were ordered by various subsidiaries of Carnival Corporation ( " Carnival " ), a US cruise operator.
The surviving ships were ordered to keep going without stopping to look for survivors.
The ships were ordered in 1926 and were based on the British County-class cruisers.
The British ships were ordered to attack the German naval force.

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