The tactics of 'single ship actions' at the time of Trafalgar were based upon pure seamanship backed up by good gunnery.
James calls 'single ship actions,' that is to say, fights between two individual ships.
In other words, for the annual sum lavished on a single ship of the line, four institutions like Harvard University might be supported.
The free cities of Hamburg and Bremen, survivors of the powerful Hanseatic League, with a commerce whitening the most distant seas, are without a single ship of war.
If the large endowments of Harvard University are dwarfed by comparison with a single ship of the line, how must it be with other institutions of learning and beneficence, less favored by the bounty of many generations?
You would not have me, as the admiral of the fleet, run down as if I were going to engage a single ship.
It was no doubt the biggest prize ever brought to England by a single ship.
He started with a single ship, the finances of the city not permitting a larger outlay of means.
The Ironsides was a very heavily armed ship, provided with eleven-inch guns, and capable of delivering the heaviest broadside ever fired from a single ship.
Eudoxus prosecuted the voyage in a single ship of lighter construction, till he came to a race of people who spoke, as he thought, the same language as those he had met on the opposite side of the continent.
He ordered that the bodies of every ten pilots should be burnt together with a single ship, but that every earl or king that was killed should be put on his own ship and burnt with it.
They embarked in a single ship, but soon attached two others.
He tried to go by himself to the king in a single ship.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single ship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
