The British fleet consisted of eight battleships (of which only the Inflexible and Alexandra were of great fighting power), along with five unarmoured vessels.
The armour on either side kept out the shells from the vitals, though great smoking gaps began to show where the unarmoured sides had been riven.
Each side made many hits, and some damage was done to unarmoured portions of the huge hulls.
Both missiles struck on the unarmoured portion of the Huascar's bows, and pierced her through and through, without exploding, however, as the thickness of steel penetrated was insufficient to detonate the projectiles.
If you say 'Let fly' I kill him and whoever stands behind him, for I will break bow if this shaft go not through at least three unarmoured men.
There is no peril in dealing with so stupid a band as that at Treves, whose head a simple girl may cozen and whose chief warrior, mounted and encased in iron an unarmoured foot-soldier can overthrow.
The Shah and Amethyst were unarmoured cruisers, but in point of number of guns they were superior to the ironclad.
Beyond doing damage to the unarmoured portion of the pirate ship, the Frome's comparatively light ordnance would make little or no impression upon her gigantic antagonist.
Their thickest armour was eight inches, a mere strip, 100 feet long by three high, and much of the visible part of them was unarmoured altogether, while below it varied from six inches to as low as three-eighths of an inch.
The first is the recent engagement off Peru between the Peruvian ironclad turret-ship Huascar and the British unarmoured men-of-war Shah and Amethyst.
The great revolution in the equipments for war, commenced by the artillery train and nearlyunarmoured pikeman and estradiot, was now being completed by the reiter, pistolier and arquebusier.
At that time, our men-of-war were built with unarmoured ends, only the protective steel deck extending the whole length and breadth of the ship.
At the same time, I continued to represent the radical weakness of unarmoured ends.
Filled with ordinary gunpowder, the larger natures are formidable projectiles for the attack of fortifications and the unarmoured portions of warships.
The unarmouredcruisers are intended chiefly for scouting purposes, or for capturing or protecting commerce.
If struck in their unarmoured ends they turn o'er, And go to the bottom!
But it was obvious that the unarmoured portions of the ship above water could be torn to pieces by the fire of comparatively light weapons.
The Italian ironclad "Re di Portogallo" of 5600 tons, in the rear of the line, stood out to cover the unarmoured squadron by ramming the Austrians.
In a later telegram he added that when the earthworks were armed, the position of the unarmoured vessels of his squadron would be untenable, if fired on without warning.
One shot struck the unarmouredpart of the hull, and, penetrating, damaged the bollards and did other injury.
A number of antiquated units figured on the Navy List, including useless "battleships" dating from the 'sixties, and small unarmoured cruisers little better than gunboats.
Though her armour was nowhere penetrated, the shells burst their way into her unarmoured superstructure, and reduced everything on her upper decks to tangled wreckage.
Then there were some woodenunarmoured gunboats and dispatch vessels.
The "Palestro," fighting beside her, was set on fire by shells passing through her unarmoured stern.
But the Japanese unarmoured cruisers did not escape scathless.
The second division, under Commodore von Petz, was composed of wooden unarmoured ships.
But the unarmoured ships on the Chinese right were suffering terribly under the cross-fire of the enemy's van and main squadrons.
Ventilators and deck-fittings were swept away, the funnels cut up, and the unarmoured part of the sides repeatedly pierced by shells that started several fires amidships.
Their unarmoured parts were pierced again and again, the shells bursting as they entered, and lighting several fires that were extinguished with difficulty.
As nearly as is known the Russian fleet consisted of twelve battleships, twenty-five armoured andunarmoured cruisers, and about forty torpedo-boats.
As a child sometimes carries a tender-winged butterfly in the globe of its two hands that the bloom on the wings may not be ruffled by fluttering, so He carries our feeble, unarmoured souls enclosed in the covert of His Almighty hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unarmoured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
