Cover
Cover verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
Set forth
Both terms in one sentence
- HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse taught the British an object lesson about the importance of providing World War II battleships with air cover, which these two did not have when they set forth from Singapore to raid Japanese convoys in the South China Sea on December 9, 1941.
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