The main danger threatened from following floes piling up on theirs and ramming over it to smash the schooner, but that was a risk that must be met as it evolved, and there did not seem much prospect of the happening.
The engine was started after the small leaks in the bow, caused by the ramming of the boat on the rocks, had been stopped up, and the professor, entering the conning tower, turned her due south.
They areramming us bow on against the rocks," cried Andy.
What do you want to go on ramming an object after you've once hit it?
Job was ramming the wad home on the charge of powder in his bow gun.
The big gunner-captain worked rapidly as always, but before he had done ramming down the round-shot, the pirate schooner was within range for a long-distance try.
Job had turned the wheel over to Hawkes, and now, with three picked men to help him, was ramming home a heavy charge of powder in the long "nine.
At the same moment Job put in his powder, a heavy charge, rammingit home quickly, but with all care.
The monitors being, like the Tennessee herself, very slow, the ramming contest first began.
Shows the manner the attack was made by the fleet upon the ram by ramming her in succession and keeping up a constant fire upon her at the same time.
From this it follows that the opportunity of ramming a submersible, or of sinking it by gunfire, is greatly minimized, since the vessel can disappear so rapidly.
Then, too, he is extremely vulnerable to the effect of enemy shells and to the ramming of enemy ships.
The Athenians were, as we know, expert tacticians at sea, and adopted the method oframming hostile ships, instead of lying alongside and leaving the fighting to the troops on board.
Moreover, long vessels would have been very difficult to manoeuvre, and in the Greek mode of fighting, ramming being one of the chief modes of offence, facility in manoeuvring was of prime importance.
That ramming was undoubtedly one of the prettiest little jobs of its kind, one of the most neatly finessed, ever brought off.
Our sudden change of course to keep from rammingthe Nectar spoiled our chance at the second Hun cruiser, but we were left no time to mourn that any more than the finish of the Nectar.
All of a sudden I saw another destroyer steering right across our bows, and to keep fromramming her the captain altered back to starboard.
Briefly, the operation of the machine is as follows: The ramming head shown thrown back at the top of the machine is drawn into a vertical position after flask has been placed and filled with sand.
Second, machines which only draw the patterns, the ramming being accomplished by the usual hand methods.
The cylinder, with the entire upper portion of the machine, is thus driven forcibly up against the ramming head, flask, sand and all.
Suspecting that his intentions were hostile, I quickly reloaded, ramming down a ball.
Throwing the halter of the baggage-horse, which I had been leading, to Toby, I rode towards the spot, unslinging my rifle and as I did so ramming down a ball.
She then went full speed to the spot from which the submarine had fired its torpedo, in the hope of ramming it.
Beware, he said, about ramming periscopes; these were frequently mere decoys for bombs and should be shelled.
The method of ramming action, as used by Farragut in his brilliant victories of wooden steamers over Confederate iron-clads, was that out-lined by Perry years before.
With the old system of tactics under sail, no ramming was possible, as the vessel under propulsion would expose herself to a raking fire while slowly working up to position.
The cases are filled by putting a thimble full of the powder in, and ramming it tightly down with a roller, this operation being continued until the case is filled.
All the way to Butts's, hurried as he was, his hands were ramming his trousers-pockets, after his fashion of groping there for a solution of his difficulties.
But by persistently ramming the point of the crowbar against the stone-work at the side of the window he succeeded at length in picking out a little mortar and bracing the tip of the crowbar against a projecting stone.
L--The master stands at the other furnace and prepares the forehearth by ramming it with two rammers.
Powder is poured in, the end knocked on the ground, and the slug with another knock sent on the powder, without either ramming or cartridge.
He was cut in two by a cannon-shot while in the act of ramming home a cartridge in the bow-gun of the Jolly Bachelor.
The vessels closed again, the beak of the Peruvian ramming the Esmeralda on the starboard bow, opening a breach.
The ironclad rushed in upon the wooden hull of her victim, ramming her on the port side.
In sponging and ramming the men were bidden to keep the sponge or rammer on that side of them opposite to the side exposed to the enemy so that if a shot should strike it, it would not force it into the body of the holder.
He was filling his pipe with tobacco, ramming it down into the bowl with careful precision.
She began walking about the room, folding up the few things she had not already packed and ramming them anyhow into the open trunk.
