Salvo followed salvo but a number of the shells failed to explode.
As she staggered out of column and began sinking, another salvo smashed into her forward decks and she rolled over and sank like a stone.
According to a German report, the first salvo that hit the Seydlitz knocked out both after-turrets and annihilated their crews; and the ship was saved only by flooding the magazines.
The third salvo from the Scharnhorst disabled the Good Hope's forward 9.
Without much hope of hurting the enemy I fired salvo after salvo from the forward turrets.
Evidently the same salvo had put the "Stoshfeld's" for'ard 9.
With one terrific salvo her guns simply swept the German cruiser's decks.
But more than once the Master had bidden him be silent when a rackety Puppy salvo of barking had broken in on the arrival of some guest.
Lifting his magnificent head, he broke into a salvo of trumpeting barks; the oddly triumphant form of racket he reserved for great moments.
After having pleaded to the jurisdiction of the Court he puts in a second plea, 'salvo predicto responso,' namely, that the tenement claimed is encumbered by other and greater services than paying 15s.
This led to a salvo of revolver-shots and cheers, and we proceeded on our way.
Our launchers flamed as we sent a salvo of torpedoes whistling toward the Rebel fleet marking perhaps the opening shots of the main battle.
Maybe with ammunition we could, but there's less than a salvoaboard and he has the advantage of position.
Three hundred feet above us the "Amphitrite's" main battery let loose a salvo at three Rebel scouts that had flickered into being less than fifty miles away.
The enemy scout, disabled by the shock, stunned and unable to maneuver took the entire salvo amidships and disappeared in a puff of flame.
That last salvo went through our screens, but our armor stopped it.
Eagerly looking for something to fire at, she saw, all at once, these poor devils of Turks streaming out of their trenches across open ground, and let go salvo after salvo into the middle of them.
But large bribes of gold was a salvo to that nice sense of honor for which he had so often wrangled.
This was intended as a sort of salvo to the national honor, necessary, as Pitt well knew, to insure the repeal of the act.
Hill’s problems were further compounded by the sudden loss of communications on his flagship Maryland with the first crashing salvo of the ship’s main battery.
Murray attacked the Japanese defensive positions at first light, getting one salvo of supporting fire from Battery G before the lines became too intermingled in the extended melee.
As he came near them, he notified the Spaniards of his approach by a salvo of rifle shots, firing thirteen guns in honor of the fighting colonies and as a salute to the lords of the stream.
In the midst of the festivities a person entered the room whose appearance was greeted with a salvo of hearty cheers.
Salvo after salvo was directed towards the two British cruisers, but every shell fell short, while many of the Athene's 6-inch shells battered her sides.
The mighty 13-inch guns of the cruiser boomed out across the sea, and with the first salvo the Schiller was hit in a vital part.
He flung a last salvo from his hot machine-guns, then, heart numbing, jerked back the control-stick and careened high.
Lance knew they needed at least ten minutes to prepare another salvo of disintegrating flame; he had about four minutes left.
At any second he might be greeted by a salvo of bullets, and every fiber of his lean body was taut.
The lid snapped down and the tail kicked up a little, and a ragged salvo of shell from the broadsides of four light cruisers whitened the sea where the target had been.
The range was short and the salvo ragged, for one torpedo "hung in the tube" a few seconds before leaving, its engines roaring and driving the water from the tube over the men abaft it in a drenching shower.
At one moment the huge, nineteen-thousand-ton ship was steaming bravely along with her guns firing; the next, a salvo of five or six shell seemed to strike her simultaneously amidships.
A hostile vessel would suddenly loom up out of the haze a bare eight or ten thousand yards distant, to be greeted with salvo after salvo of shell as the British battleships drove by.
At times a shadowy gray mass, sparkling with wicked-looking gun-flashes, slid slowly into view behind some great upheaval in the water, to disappear the next instant as another salvo of shell fell and burst.
The Defence, to use the words of an eye-witness, was 'blown clean out of the water' by a salvo of shell.
He barked at the barge from the heights where the camp stood; then he raced down to the shore and emitted a salvo of barks from the landing on that side of the island.
In the midst of the downpour, however, and in a lull between thunder claps, Barnacle, who had been tied to the corner of the hut and had crawled under the floor for protection, suddenly broke out with a terrific salvo of barks.
The inquisitor at that time was evidently a personage of influence, for Fra Salvo in fact was also confessor of the viceroy.
Viceroy Ximenes the shipment of a large supply of corn from Sicily to Rome, he wrote to the inquisitor, Fra Salvo di Cassetta, ordering him to strain every nerve to secure the granting of the favor.
The warship sent in a salvo of more six-inch shells than had been fired that day.
At daybreak on the 6th, ten guns and a large mortar broke the silence of the morning with a salvo upon the beleaguered garrison.
They gave her a salvo as she went by, and one shot carried away her mast; before they could reload she was out of reach.
While the sentinels were yet debating about giving the alarm, each of the dark objects sent forth a crashing salvo of artillery; grape-shot rattled among the rocks and trees upon the shore, and plowed up the surrounding waters.
Even as he spoke the air was torn by a terrific salvo of shells from powerful batteries hitherto well concealed in the dunes.
Terence glanced at his watch as the first salvo burst from the avenging "Lion.
This missile was followed by salvo after salvo, some forty shells of various calibre raining on the Castle Hill.
Terence realized that by the fact that she did not follow the single shot by salvo after salvo, that the projectile--weighing nearly a ton--had shrieked ineffectually towards the rearmost of the German ships.
