Christy thought it was time for him to take a hand in the game, and he ordered the midship gun to be fired, charged as it was with a solid shot.
The firing was done on both vessels with the heavy midship guns, and doubtless the calibre of the pieces was the same; but Flint was the more fortunate of the two, for his shot struck the smokestack of the enemy, or partly upset it.
All three of the steamers were delivering the fire of their midship guns very regularly, though with little effect, the distance was so great.
She carried a midship gun of heavy calibre, and four broadside pieces.
If you discover the Arran fire your midship gun, and I will do the same.
The noise was enough for the big midship gun on deck, or even for a small earthquake.
That shot overturned the midship piece of the Arran.
This was the gunner, and he was directed to fire a single shot, blank, from the midship gun.
The Arran's midship gun had been disabled so that she could not make any very telling shots, but her crew had succeeded in righting her funnel, which had not gone entirely over, but had been held by the stays.
One had the oar ready for thrusting outboard, one stood by with his shield ready to protect the rower, and the other, standing in the midship gangway, had his bow ready.
The crew were very silent, but the oars swung steadily, and at last Thorleif came from the midship gangway and saw me.
She had been commenced for a paddle-wheel steamer shortly before, and was of nearly the same tonnage and midship section as the 'Polyphemus,' but she had not the fine lines aft which were so important for the use of the screw.
This proportion of propelling surface to midship section is much smaller--that is, the area of the screw is much less in proportion to the size of the vessel than is the area of paddle-boards immersed in steamboats generally.
Longitudinal Section, Plan, andMidship Section of the 'Great Eastern' Steam-Ship.
They had three hundred and fifty sail--among them sixty galleys, each with three pieces in the bows; the piece in the midship gangway fired balls of sixty libras, as we saw in those found in the galleons after the war.
The starboard boat fell back to her former position with the loss of her midship oar and the gunwale split, but that was a trifle.
But when these and our boat were all stowed away, there still remained more room than I expected in our midship compartment, and the little craft floated with her load-line nearly a foot above the water's edge.
Hurling himself forward across the midship thwart, he seized the steering wheel and turned the launch in a wide circle.
Ping slid backward over the midship thwart, yielding his place meekly and gladly; and then, with McGlory, he watched while Motor Matt plucked the Sprite out of harm's way.
But when these and our boat were all stowed away, there still remained more room than I expected in our midship compartment, and the little craft floated with her load-line nearly a foot above the waters edge.
With this style, the midship section was laid first and secured by a temporary rib, then the next toward the ends, with the butts shoved under the ends of the middle section.
The midship strakes were often quite short and their ends were over the longer end strakes.
The height of the stem was almost twice the midship depth.
The ribs are set, one by one, working to within two or three frames of the midship thwart; then the other end of the canoe is begun.
Those first driven stand with their bottoms nearer the midship thwart than the ends, and this angle, or slant, continues to amidships; the ribs in the other end of the canoe slant in the opposite direction.
The bow and stern were nearly the same height, the bow being a little higher, about half the midship depth above the sheer amidships.
This pattern was carried down from the stem-head to about the level of the midship sheer height; from there down around the forefoot the lashing consisted of a simple spiral.
However, not all these canoes had such double ribs; some were framed out in the usual manner, with the ribs widely spaced and canted toward their respective ends of the hull, away from the midship of the canoe.
Saying which she pointed where she had spread the cloaks hard by the midship thwart and I, amazed by her fierce outburst, suffered her to take the tiller from my hold, and coming amidships laid myself down even as she had commanded.
In ten minutes more the Bronx quivered under the discharge of the great midship gun, and a cloud of smoke rose above her deck.
The Bronx had hardly stopped her screw before the soldiers were to be seen on the barbette; but the shell with which the midship gun had been charged sent them all to the casemates in an instant.
Give them another shot from the midship gun, Mr. Flint.
The midship gun was of no service now, and Mr. Flint had been directed to keep up a steady fire with the broadside guns at the embrasures of the fort as soon as the Bronx was in range.
The strength of the Bronx was mainly in her heavy midship gun.
On one large vessel the following maxim was painted on the walls of the midship quarters: "There is a place for everything; put everything in its place.
Before this another gang had been able to slip the other chain to position abaft the mizzenmast, hook on the tackle, and lead the fall through a snatch-block at the quarter-bitts forward to the midship capstan.
The principle is only the same, however, so far as the midship section is concerned.
Practically there is no change in the midship sections other than that which more skilled workmanship and more artistic design have evolved.
She was built of cedar, and her lines and midship section are given in Dixon Kemp's 'Boat-sailing.
In an hour from the time of salving the flying-boat the "Meteor" was ready to shed her now superfluous 'midship divisions.
All the ammunition is stored in the 'midship or No.
There came a faint hissing sound like that of escaping air, and, as he watched, Dacres saw the midship section of the huge envelope drop slowly out of line.
They drew a foot or two more water, had big midship sections, and were in every way larger and more powerful yachts.
Under her 'midship funnel a gaping rent was torn in her side, revealing a mass of twisted metal where another projectile had burst.
One gun of her 'midship turret, thrown out of action, drooped towards the deck licked by hungry tongues of flame—but her remaining armament was still firing doggedly.
If you have someone to help you, you can easily put the midship frame into position and bend the sides around it until the unfastened end comes into the correct position against the stem-piece, to which it can be held and screwed firmly.
Also, for the same reason, mark the midship lines across each side and on the edges, as shown.
The vessel, lifted by the wave to a certain height, had plunged between the two rocks up to her midship frame.
From one extremity to the other of the defile, the two parallel granite walls confronted each other at a distance which the midship frame of the Durande measured exactly.
The after-part with the engine and the paddles, lifted out of the foam and driven by all the fury of the cyclone into the defile of the Douvres, had plunged in up to her midship beam, and remained there.
He visited the sloop and measured her beam carefully in several parts, but particularly her midship frame.
It is the position of his midship to the shore which he is rounding that he should especially note.
Per contra, the more bluff the midship and stern sections, the greater the difficulty in filling the vacuum aft.
The midship gun's crew happened to be cleaning their weapon as the boat drifted by.
On this assumption we can proceed to construct the curve of the midship section as in the drawing annexed.
Before we can proceed to construct from it the midship section, we are met with the difficulty that the depth from greatest breadth to keel is not given, but in the first model this was equal to the draught, viz.
Then he ran to the boat, and came back with the stern and midship thwarts.
He glazed the door leading to her bath-room and quarter gallery with plate glass; he provided a light easy-chair, slung and fitted with grommets, to be hung on hooks screwed into the beams in the midship of the cabin.
It is desirable that the sheer should be ample, and the form not unduly fined away within the midship half length.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "midship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
