Its projectiles are filled with powerful explosives, a single one of which in the vitals of any battleship would be enough to place it out of commission.
With reference to the Navy, naval experts generally agree that the United States will celebrate many a decade of passing years before a battleship too large to use the present lock chambers is a possibility.
There was nothing in the look of that spouting volcano of smoke and steam that would help a man to tell whether it was a battleship or a trawler, but I knew that it could be only the Nectar, our Division leader.
The engineer asserted that he had already been in eight warships which had been destroyed, these including a battleship and two or three cruisers and motor launches.
The offer of a battleship from the Cape Colony was the greatest of these signs, but it was only one of many.
The composition of this Russian fleet was never made public by the Russian admiralty, but it is known that the Russian battleship Evstafi was the flagship.
When the British fleet first went after the Germans it had as one of its units the battleship Canopus.
There remained of the British force only the Otranto--a converted liner and not really a battleship of the line--the Glasgow and the hopelessly disabled Monmouth to continue the fight with an efficient German force.
The British battleship Audacious, while on patrol duty off the coast of Ireland in the early days of the war, met with a disaster of some sort and was brought to her home port in a sinking condition.
The idea of a water route across the isthmus, long a dream of navigators, had become a living issue after the historic voyage of the battleship Oregon around South America during the Spanish War.
On February 15, the battleship Maine, riding in the harbor of Havana, was blown up and sunk, carrying to death two officers and two hundred and fifty-eight members of the crew.
This included practically the whole fleet, except the Pacific squadron under Dewey, and the Oregon, a newbattleship of unusual design, which was on the Pacific coast.
Attraction, not compulsion, was the method to be used, and none of the paeans of American prophets in the editorials or the fervid orations of the fifties proposed an additional battleship or regiment.
A battleship should be at least twice as long as a torpedo-boat destroyer.
The battleship is provided with four main batteries mounted in turrets, one forward and three aft.
A view of the battleshipas it will look in the water is shown in Fig.
A battleshipgray with maroon trimmings makes a pleasing color combination for this boat.
We had struck the battleship low amidships--we had crashed through the thinnest coat of her steel.
Max Hilliger's declaration that he would not be satisfied until Lieutenant Hermann Koerner and he had put a torpedo into a British battleship was not long in being fulfilled.
Ever since the perilous moment on board the doomed German battleship in the Bight of Heligoland, when Max Hilliger had saved his uncle's life, Admiral von Hilliger had shown a peculiarly affectionate regard for his nephew.
Still, as Max himself realised, it was better to be serving as a junior officer in a submarine and doing important work for the Fatherland than to be tramping the quarter-deck of an idle battleship with no immediate chance of fighting.
The design pictures a battleshipin gold identified as the "U.
The battleship Hiei, hit by more than 80 shells, retired and with it went the rest of the bombardment force.
Japanese intelligence had picked up the approaching American battleship force and warned Tanaka of its advent.
Looked at in another way, we may say that a battleship is a floating fortress.
Previously no battleship had been faster than 19 knots: she was designed for 21 knots.
It is just about fifty years ago since the last iron-clad wooden battleshipwas launched for the British Navy.
He first played his flashes on the battleship Maryland.
A Turkish position between The Nek andBattleship Hill.
They met with little resistance--indeed on reaching a point where they could overlook the Sazli Beit Dere, they were astonished to see the valley crowded with scared Turks streaming back towards Battleship Hill.
These would serve to immobilize or distract the enemy reserves known to be concentrated at Koja Dere, behind Mortar Ridge, and at Battleship Hill.
The uninformed persons of the British Isles and elsewhere may not realize that this gift of the battleship Malaya means simply the imposition of additional taxes on the conquered subjects that "belong to" the conquering race.
The battleship was, however, extricated from her predicament.
When the new peril came with the invasion, however, they were conveyed by a battleship to a safer refuge in Rome.
The name ship of this battleship class, the Queen Elizabeth, had been through a long, racking service in the Dardanelles operations, and was not with the fleet.
On Battleship Hill there was a battery that had the whole of the southern posts ranged, and dropped shells on them with unceasing regularity and remarkable accuracy.
From Lone Pine to Hill 60 their line was constantly being shelled by the heavy guns on Battleship Hill and elsewhere; while Beachy Bill and his equivalents made the beach a place of death and danger.
Outposts won’t pay any attention to me, because I’m right where a Jap seaplane ought to be flying along, going back to its battleship in the morning.
That’s the kind that’s got pontoons and is usually catapulted from a battleship or cruiser.
The battleship Alaska was ordered to capture the strange yacht, or, failing that, to sink her.
I have the honour to report that we sighted Palgrave Island on the evening of April 29," ran the report of Captain Johnson, of the battleship North Dakota, to the Secretary of the Navy.
The battleship got under way and steamed slowly toward the Energon.
Battleship Boys Series By Frank Gee Patchin These stories throb with the life of young Americans on to-day's huge drab Dreadnaughts.
It was the boat of levium that had been thrown out of the wreckage when the battleship ran down the Municipal tower, and we must now follow the thread of its adventures up to the time of its encounter with the Ark.
One of them was a seaman who had taken refuge, with a crowd of comrades, in the boat before the battleship rushed down upon the building.
Suppose, for instance, the battleship does not notice, or affects not to notice, the white flag?
For aught he knew, another unterseeboot might be in the vicinity, reserving her torpedoes in the hope that the battleship would slow down to investigate.
Schwalbe will certainly have a shot at recapturing us after the battleship has cleared off.
He had to act, and act promptly, for a battleship travelling at 21 knots does not give a man time to think for any length of time.
If we do not, then I fancy there will be no survivors from U75 as well as from the English battleship Tremendous.
She looked far different from the spick-and-span battleship which had left Portsmouth only six weeks previously.
Yet no explosion occurred, and the battleship recovered her normal trim.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "battleship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: can; cruiser; destroyer; vessel
