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1- Transport to and from the boats in the harbour is usually provided by sampans .

2- Chinese and Filipino interactions initially commenced as bartering and item exchanges done on Chinese sampans .

3- It is called Sampan Congee because it was sold by Tanka people on sampans .

4- sampans (junks) can be hired by tourists for a tour in the Aberdeen Harbour.

5- Eight hours later, “Wahoo” opened fire on two more sampans , enveloping them in flames.

6- On 19 June, she destroyed two sampans by gunfire, leaving them aflame, with decks awash.

7- Sightings of sampans became frequent, and “Tunny” often dove to avoid detection by suspicious-looking trawlers.

8- Kerry’s boat surprised a group of men unloading sampans at a river crossing, who began to run.

9- That day, TF 38 planes destroyed a Japanese submarine tender, 12 sampans , and over 100 planes.

10- The Chinese were using sampans built in California to fish for squid, abalone and fish on Monterey Bay.

11- On 4 March, 2-319 destroyed three sampans , one raft and 20 bunkers with one confirmed VC KIA.

12- Some sampans include a small shelter on board, and may be used as a permanent habitation on inland waters.

13- These missions resulted in the destruction of several sampans and structures as well as bunkers used by the Viet Cong.

14- Two sampans exploded violently but return fire and flying debris injured three of “Halibut”s crew – one seriously.

15- Their mission included bringing a demolition team and dozens of South Vietnamese soldiers to destroy enemy sampans , structures and bunkers.

16- As part of the operation the tanks ambushed a river and sank seven loaded sampans with their 20-pounder main armament.

17- As the men fled, Kerry and his crew opened fire on the sampans and destroyed them, then rapidly left.

18- Troops are being concentrated in two locations on He-do Pan-do and are going to use about eighty fishing sampans for transport.

19- Until approached by Reynolds, Yotsuda had only built sampans and was struggling to recover financially from the second World War.

20- Additionally, a landing party helped to destroy 41 sampans in the aftermath that had been used to transport Viet Cong supplies.

21- If this manpower proved inadequate, there were always a small fleet of sampans ready to sell their assistance to the foreigners.

22- The information told the United States that the enemy was building sampans for minelaying and preparing offensives against the islands around Wonsan.

23- Her damage assessments for this duty included destruction of targets such as troop concentrations, bunkers, footbridges, and supply-carrying sampans .

24- Gunfire proved to be more effective, and the submarine sank one of the sampans and left the other one badly damaged.

25- The problem is that unlit wooden sampans or floating logs, which are difficult to see with radar, can suddenly appear in front of a vessel travelling at speed.

26- Not waiting for the arrival of the armed helicopters, he displayed great initiative and boldly led the patrol through the intense enemy fire and damaged or destroyed fifty enemy sampans and seven junks.

27- Maneuvering through this fire, the patrol confronted a numerically superior enemy force aboard two enemy junks and eight sampans augmented by heavy automatic weapons fire from ashore.

28- On 31 October 1966, Petty Officer Williams was serving as Boat Captain and Patrol Officer aboard River Patrol Boat (PBR) 105 accompanied by another patrol boat when the patrol was suddenly taken under fire by two enemy sampans .

29- When a Fleet-type submarine went to war in the Pacific it operated mainly on the surface, attacking convoys at night, always heavily escorted as well as single vessels, rescuing downed fliers during intense air battles and shooting up enemy trawlers, junks, fishing boats and sampans .

30- These guns then began being mounted on submarines in late 1943 for extra firepower against small boats and sampans often encountered off the coast of Japan.

31- Push Packages arrived before units, units were diverted from their scheduled debarkation points where their ammunition was offloaded, and ammunition piled up on the beach at Cam Ranh Bay and aboard leased sampans and barges on the Saigon River.

32- Putting to sea as a member of a wolfpack 23 August 1944, Guardfish and the other submarines, Thresher and Sunfish, had a 40 minute surface gun battle with sampans 2 September.

33- The report concluded that had there been a second typhoon shelter at Mongkoktsui, all these 452 vessels as well as a large number of sampans could have found safe refuge there.

34- According to the report, the number of vessels counted outside the Causeway Bay shelter on the morning of 28 July, included 98 junks, 38 European lighters in Kowloon Bay, Hung Hom Bay, off Yaumati and behind Stonecutters, and 200 sampans were also counted off Yaumati.

35- The low wall at Arsenal Street was nearly washed away, and 14 cargo boats and sampans that did not get to the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, were smashed on the Praya promenade wall.

36- Disembarkation began soon after, and the Americans were greeted by swarms of sampans , whose crews were eager for trade, and crowds of jubilant Chinese on the shore.

37- With the ship at berth in Whampoa, the cargo from and to the ship had to be transported to Canton by sampans with hired hands.

38- Messages between all points on the Pearl River between Canton and Macau were sent by hired messengers on sampans or other Chinese boats.

39- In 1765, the Swedish ship “Prins Carl” hired a pilot and 30 sampans , for which they paid 26 taels of silver.

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