There was a fierce naval midnight battle; a strange spectacle among the branches of those quiet orchards, and with the chimney stacks of half-submerged farmhouses rising around the contending vessels.
The Spanish soldiers, brave as they were on land, were not sailors, and in the naval contests which had taken place between them and the Hollanders had been almost invariably defeated.
Do you know there are forty-two ships at Nosi Be under the Russian naval and merchant flags?
For some reason the width and measures of the docks are considered a secret, and do not find a place in books of naval inquiry, so that no one remembers the measures.
If she goes to Shanghai, she will have to disarm and be inactive till the end of the war, as she is under the naval flag.
At about nine o'clock the signalman in an emotional voice announced that a warship was coming towards us from the north, flying the Russian naval flag and several signals.
Where has that respected institution called the Naval General Staff sent our letters now?
These naval men dare to talk, after having ignominiously and needlessly ruined a navy twice as strong as the Japanese, scarcely doing any harm to the latter.
They only are entitled to honours, riches, glory, everything; but naval work they do not understand.
An hour ago we passed Cape St. Vincent (Portuguese), off which a great naval battle once took place.
In some places bodies still clad in naval attire, with bright-coloured silk kerchiefs round the neck, were unearthed, as if the sea were eager to reclaim the shipwrecked sailors whom it had in former time flung dead upon the shore.
A certain Banfield had thought it well to enter the Austro-Hungarian naval service many years ago, and the captain was one of his descendants.
Count Ottokar Czernin, I learned, had also quietly slipped out of town, as had a number of Austro-Hungarian naval staff men and experts.
Officially, Captain Humann was known as the commander of the German naval base in Constantinople and as naval attache.
In the submarine we have an arm which, as our naval experts maintain, is capable of letting England feel the war a little more in food matters.
I happen to know a certain successful diplomat who closed both eyes to his wife's infatuation for a young naval officer.
He remains in the music-room all the rest of the evening, and does not seek to join the various groups of men, who are either talking politics or discoursing naval matters.
He wears full naval uniform, and has ribbons and clasps on his breast.
The Dutch being a nautical race by tradition as well as by the daily work of a large portion of them, there is nothing uncongenial in a naval career.
In old days Amsterdam was safe from any naval descent, but the introduction of steam has laid it open to the attack at least of torpedo flotillas.
The immense navies of modern days, and the enormous cost of their maintenance and renovation, seem to exclude small States from the rank of naval Powers.
The impression left on an observer of the military and naval classes in Holland is that they are not animated by a very strong martial spirit.
He had won a great naval victory for his country with the first fleet that it had ever possessed--which was naturally a gratifying reflection, and he would have been perfectly happy now if he had only been a little more comfortable.
He maintained silence concerning the point, and the Northern newspapers upon the arrival of the prize at Philadelphia were full of the subject of the "Capture of the Don and the notorious English naval officer, Captain Roberts.
Much chagrined were they to find they had got the wrong man, and that the English naval officer was still at large.
Their naval efforts were chiefly in the direction of supplying themselves from outside sources with commerce destroyers, such as the Alabama, Florida, Shenandoah, Georgia, etc.
It was this form of blockade which absorbed by far the greatest part of our naval activity during the great French wars.
Moreover her engines, as we knew, were very hard to manipulate, so much so that on one occasion it was found impossible to stop her, and she ran right into the jetty of the naval yard at Washington.
Our own Navy Record Society by the line it has taken thoroughly endorses this view, and has committed itself to the teaching of naval history from the mouths of the men who made it.
George, sixth Earl of Northesk, a naval officer of distinction, who attained the rank of admiral of the white.
In the naval battle between Byron and D'Estaing, our captains were worthy of any age in our story.
But both vessels sailed under British naval officers for these were permitted to resign their commissions.
It is fully shared by many important members of the Cabinet--nor are the men in high office exempt from the overweening idea of the naval power of the United States, which reconciles the people to the notion of a war with England.
True, France was also an offender, but as the weaker naval power her offence was lost sight of in view of the, literally, thousands of bona fide Americans seized by Great Britain.
Naval vessels widely scattered over the globe, were instructed to hasten their home-coming.
The "best solution" was not the probable one, for the South, without a navy, would not readily yield its only naval weapon.
In short her true character, in terms of modern naval usage, was that of a "commerce destroyer.
England should strike at once with the largest possible naval force and bring the war to an end before the United States could prepare.
All nations in principle repudiated that trade and Britain made treaties with various maritime powers giving mutual right of search to the naval vessels of each upon the others' merchant vessels.
Very early, in 1817, an agreement creditable to the wisdom and pacific intentions of both countries, was reached establishing small and equal naval armaments on the Great Lakes.
No depredations shall be committed by our naval forces or by those of any of our citizens, so far as we can prevent it, upon the vessels or property of British subjects.
Japan: Seward's suggestion of a naval demonstration against, i.
At once a naval force was despatched to the Mediterranean, under approved officers, Commodores Bainbridge and Decatur.
To which the Admiral answered, that, like all naval operations, will depend upon the wind.
The race for naval armaments into which these three countries entered not many months ago, and the competition between the two great Anglo-Saxon people, cannot be other than very damaging for civilization.
The race for naval armaments regards especially the two Anglo-Saxon powers and Japan; the race for land armaments regards all the conquerors of Europe and especially the small States.
There is a race towards the increase of naval armaments.
Nevertheless, Russia and Austria-Hungary and the people arisen in their territories are not naval powers; Germany has lost all her fleet.
Austria has lost every access to the sea, has consigned her fleet and her merchant marine, but in return has had the advantage of numerous inter-allied commissions of control to safeguard the military, naval and aeronautic clauses.
Creation of inter-allied military commissions of control to supervise and enforce the carrying out of the military and naval clauses, at the expense of Germany and with the right to install themselves in the seat of the central government.
The brigade was forced back in disorder, and the naval guns, which had been left behind, were temporarily captured.
His naval superiority wrested from the Greeks the command of the sea, on which the fate of the insurrection ultimately depended, while on land the Greek irregular bands were everywhere routed by Ibrahim's disciplined troops.
Wolseley with the bulk of the expeditionary force arrived at Port Said on the 20th of August, a naval demonstration having been made at Abukir with a view to deceive the enemy as to the object of the great movement in progress.
The authorities in Egypt, headed by General Stephenson, subsequently supported by the Admiral Lord John Hay, who sent a navalofficer to examine the river as far as Dongola, were unanimous in favour of the Suakin-Berber route.
The enemy were repulsed in about twenty minutes, the naval brigade, the Berkshire regiment, the Royal Marines, and the 15th Sikhs showing the greatest gallantry.
This led to a naval demonstration on the part of the Venetians, who secured better terms for their trade, and to the seizure of Egyptian vessels by the king of Aragon and the prince of Catalonia.
Why, Belle, when I was a few years younger, and first began to dream about going to the Naval Academy I had a mental picture of a very jolly life, in which we sailed the seas and absorbed our knowledge.
Who ever made the Naval Academy and the service so hard as that?
Then a good student and naturally honorable fellow would develop into a capable Naval officer.
On the contrary, they will be punished for whatever breaches of Naval discipline they have committed.
But, even if you do send me to Coventry, we shall see whether your action will be potent enough to drive me from the Naval Academy!
The commandant of midshipmen then took up the matter of their testimony with the superintendent of the Naval Academy.
The giant visitors had departed, and the Naval Academy atmosphere appeared to be rarefied.
At the Naval Academy, as at West Point, not even football is allowed to interfere in the least with studies or recitations.
Dave rambled on, for some time now, with of the athletic doings at the Naval Academy.
From one or two things that I couldn't help overhearing, I judge that Belle is greatly worried over the possibility of trouble arising from the Jetson affair," remarked Dan on the way back to the Naval Academy and quarters.
Midshipman Totten paled, but he answered bravely: "Yes, sir; and at the same time a Naval career means nearly everything in the world to me.
I never thought to see United States sailors and embryo Naval officers so much afraid of a little tossing water.
Fifty or more Naval officers detailed at the yard were scattered along the side lines.
I doan't believe I would hev known the Admiral without his naval hat, or in his last years, his garden hat.
Gravière's sketches of the naval war, review of, 595.
Among the most important of these officers are the Cabinet, interstate commerce commissioners, district attorneys, and all military and naval officers whose appointment is not otherwise ordered by law.
These are governed directly by the naval authorities of the government.
The naval academy at Annapolis was established in 1846.
The expression "civil officer" does not include military and naval officers.
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces; 15.
One cadet is allowed in the naval academy for each member or delegate of the House of Representatives, one for the District of Columbia, and ten at large.
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.
All night the Naval Monarch with the loose cheeks and jelly smile of the swinging sign-board creaked.
You know his vanity to be a military quite as much as a naval commander like the Greeks and Romans, he says.
We are told that he never forgave the Admiralty for striking him off the list of English naval captains: which is no doubt why in his old age he nursed a grudge against his country.
A portion of the Heavy Camel Regiment, the Hussars, and Naval Brigade were left behind with the three guns to hold the inclosure, while the rest, formed in square as at Abu Klea, advanced.
Owing to this change in the direction of its march the left flank of the square now became its front, and it was the 65th with the Naval Brigade on one flank and the Royal Highlanders on the other, who were nearest to the enemy.
Naval Brigade working the three machine-guns under his command, threw himself into the gap.
The ground was strewn with bodies of the natives, mingled with those of men of the corps that had formed the rear face of the square, the 4th and 5th Dragoon Guards, Naval Brigade, 1st and 2d Life Guards, and the Sussex.
It was awful luck my coming out in the Naval Brigade here; it was just a fluke.
Two officers of theNaval Brigade were also among the killed.
The next day the Naval Brigade, one hundred and fifteen strong, all picked men from the crews of the gun-boats, with ten officers, landed.
In addition to the guns sent on shore from the fleet the artillery had ten brass mountain-guns and four Krupps; the Naval Brigade had with them two nine-pounders, three Gatlings, and three Gardners.
Three naval officers and ten sailors were killed, while a large number of officers and men of the 42d and 65th were seriously wounded.
Here he studied the principles of naval artillery, and devised a new code of marine signals.
Some machinery was attached to the powder by a string, which was also fastened to a barrel of naval stores, and when it was raised had caused the explosion, as related by the lieutenant.
In the cabin I found a manifest of her cargo, and in the list, some naval stores which we wanted for the ship's use.
The hatches were taken off and the tackle hooked on to a barrel of naval stores, when the schooner blew up.
A proof has been given of the friendly disposition of France toward Spain, by offering her the aid of the French naval forces to oppose the audacious attempt against the island of Cuba.
Naval folks will find much to interest them in 'The Spirit of the Service.
The author is the daughter of one navalofficer and the wife of another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "naval" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: marine; maritime; military; nautical; navigational; oceanic; pelagic; salty; seafaring
