Powerful searchlights have very little chance of picking up the periscope or conning tower of a submarine.
From out of the center of the deck rises the conning tower.
The instant the air-valve opens, the compressed air from the air tank (conning tower) rushes into the ballast tank, and because it is under a high pressure it forces the water out of the tank through the hole whence it came in.
Officer Cleary was catapulted off his feet and crashed into the steel conning tower wall, with an exclamation of pain.
Cleary was making observations at the reserve periscope, the two officers having plunged the conning tower of the Dewey in utter darkness that they might better observe the shadowy hulk bearing down upon them.
Jean Cartier was called into the conning tower and as the destroyer drew within range poured a volley of joyous French expletives into the megaphone that had been thrust into his hand.
For the men in the Dewey there was nothing to do but take the reports from the conning tower as to what was going on outside the submarine.
He switched on the searchlight and peered from the conning tower.
I guess we'll have to dig our way out," said the professor, after taking a careful view of the big mud bank from the conning tower.
A solitary midshipman, hatless and with his blouse half off, stood beside the ensign, both of them knee-deep in discarded parts of uniform, while Eph peered out from the conning tower.
Taking the marine glasses from the conning tower, the shipbuilder was now well forward on the platform deck, scanning what was visible of the steam craft to the southward.
A few of you at a time will now step into the conning tower, and Mr. Benson will explain to you the steering and control gear used there.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conning tower" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
