Coast-defence submarines will probably be found to be the most important adjunct to the navies of every country whose policy is to defend their own coast lines, rather than to attempt aggressive warfare.
They were followed later by many much more powerful vessels designed especially to carry armor, until at the present day the English Navy is competent to engage all the European navies together.
Excepting the bottom wheels and diving compartment, most navies have now incorporated these features into their submarines.
As I write, the submarines of Germany are holding the navies of the Allied Powers in check.
Perhaps the combined navies of the world as arrayed against the Central Powers could accomplish it, but unless their guns were more powerful and far-reaching than the shore guns, even then they could not land an invading army.
Nearly every submarine in use in the navies of the world at the present day is capable of functioning in perfect safety, so far as submergence and emergence are concerned.
In her heart of hearts she knew she did not care one atom what might happen to armies and navies and nations, provided only that she had a quantity of novels to read, and meals at regular hours.
All the nations with armies and navies are too much afraid of each other to do more than growl.
Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
The Dutch and English navies sailed the seas watching the movements of each other's flags, and minding the welfare of their merchant marine.
Notwithstanding this, however, for a long time armies and costly navies continued to weigh down our public treasuries and the cannon continued to decide questions arising among nations.
As that process approaches its perfection, the work of our friends, of the armies and navies of America, will have been accomplished.
Without them her brave armies and navies could not have been created or maintained, nor won the renown which England proudly claims.
Four ships which escaped after the action were captured by Sir Richard Strachan on the 4th of November, and not while the war continued did the French and Spanish navies ever recover the tremendous blow they had received off Cape Trafalgar.
As the navies of Europe were growing, not only those of France and Russia, but the navy of Italy also, we had to look, in the interests of our security, to friendly relations with these countries.
For great as was her navy, it could not have been relied upon as sufficient to protect her adequately against the combined navies of Germany, France, Russia, and Austria, with that of Italy possibly added.
Our sea power, even as an instrument of self-defense, was in danger of becoming inadequate in the absence of friendships which should insure that other navies would remain neutral if they did not actively co-operate with ours.
But Trafalgar is over now, The quarter-deck undone; The carved and castled navies fire Their evening-gun.
Far-called our navies melt away-- On dune and headland sinks the fire, Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre.
Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
He aided in formulating the laws to raise the great armies and navies which carried us through the war.
Her navies were supreme, and had captured most of the Dutch as well as French colonies.
The navies of Spain and Portugal were never fully rebuilt.
The Portuguese did not distribute to Europe the products which their navies brought from the Indies.
The navies of the United States to-day protect the integrity of the Philippine archipelago.
To-day her piers are deserted, her warehouses are empty, her merchant fleets are vanished, her armies and her navies are but memories.
Pisa was a republic in the middle ages, with a government of her own, armies and navies of her own and a great commerce.
All the great Powers realized years ago that, to gain and keep their "place in the sun," it was necessary for them to construct navies that would insure to them a certain control of the seas for the protection of their commerce.
It is idle for us to speak of our naval supremacy over Germany, when our naviesare failing in one of their most important functions, and when our commerce is suffering such serious losses.
From that alone a deep mutual respect was born, and it was on that solid foundation that the present astonishingly friendly relations between the men of the two allied Naviesis based.
All of the principal navies of the world have given the matter much study and experiment, but down to this day no practicable contrivance has been evolved which will go far toward eliminating the variable human element in coaling.
Dimensions, expense, and very many other reasons are given for this ruinous custom, but all other Navies mount breechloaders on vessels of the same dimensions as our own.
Our guns are the worst in the world in forty-seven vessels, mounting 350 muzzleloaders, where the French and all foreign Naviesuse only breechloaders.
Aerial navies engage armies and fleets and fortresses, and fight with each other in an unsparing warfare, which has for its prize the empire of the world.
Since the growth of navies among continental Powers, these Powers have learnt to appreciate the value of the rule in war, and the outcry against the capture of merchantmen has become less loud.
The conclusion of this alliance placed the hostile navies almost on an equality, at least on paper.
Armies are formed and naviesmanned by individuals.
The brace of navies had not gone higher than the American's waist.
Then out came the brace of navies once more, as naturally as the order book of the grocer's clerk on your back porch.
Ever since the Federals had cut him off from his furloughs home, those black ugly navies were next to the nearest in his affections.
These bays and firths are invariably of an immense depth, and sufficiently capacious to shelter the navies of the proudest maritime nations.
Here it was that the united navies of France and Spain were annihilated by a far inferior force; but that force was British, and was directed by one of the most remarkable men of the age, and perhaps the greatest hero of any time.
She had all the information she wanted about their armies and navies and guns and ammunition neatly and correctly tabulated.
Armies and naviesalike would melt before him, destroyed by the explosion of their own ammunition.
On either side, protected from the storms, were the eastern and western harbors, large enough to accommodate the merchant-men and navies of the ancient world.
Her efforts and her arts o'ercome, France calls her shatter'd navies home.
They trust in navies, and their navies fail-- God's curse can cast away ten thousand sail!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "navies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
