During the first few days they were busy discharging the cargo brought by the
flotilla, the machines, and the rations, as well as a large number of huts constructed of iron plates, separately pieced and numbered.
As we slowly advanced up the bay, numerous canoes pushed off from the surrounding shores, and we were soon in the midst of quite a
flotilla of them, their savage occupants struggling to get aboard of us, and jostling one another in their ineffectual attempts.
"No provisions - no store
flotilla! What can be done, thus?"
When the
flotilla had been landed, Nicholas and I and a watchman rowed out in one of the Whitehalls, with Charley in the stern- sheets.
Then in the darkness before the dawn they had come about and steamed northward in close order with the idea of passing through the German battle-line and falling upon the
flotilla that was making for New York in support of the German air-fleet.
The balance of the
flotilla was now making rapid headway under oars and sail toward the mouth of the harbor, and as Number Thirteen saw that the girl was being borne away from him, he shouted a command to his misshapen crew, and without waiting to see if they would follow him leaped into the nearer of the two boats beneath.
Before breakfast the ship was hemmed in by a
flotilla of canoes; and when the natives were allowed to come on board, I suppose there could not have been less than two hundred.
Now there remained no trace of their dominion except the old steamer, once part of a Dervish
flotilla, which was his house and office.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon described the action as "unnecessary provocation", adding that "if the so-called helpful Gaza
flotillas were really interested in the welfare of the population in Gaza, they would send their aid via Israel."
The group organised two previous
flotillas, in 2010 and in 2011.
--Turkey, Canada Plan New
Flotillas with Aid for Gaza
Gaza's PM Ismail Haniyeh condemned what he called "Israeli piracy" and urged other
flotillas to attempt to break the Israeli blockade "so Gaza can have freedom of movement to the outside world".
'
FLOTILLA MANIA' has taken Cyprus and the Middle east by storm, after reports that Israeli activists were planning "reverse
flotillas" to the occupied areas and Turkey to highlight its neighbours' naval embargoes and treatment of minority groups.
Coast Guard Division 10 comprises six
flotillas in Central Massachusetts.
During the French nuclear testing programme at Moruroa between 1960 and 1995 sailors from all nations in tiny boats risked their lives, year after year, sometimes alone, sometimes in small
flotillas sailing into the bomb test zones to alert the world to the danger.
