Sentence examples for a large warship from inspiring English sources

A nine-foot one suggests the wreck is a large warship.

The Committee also gave Dreadnought steam turbine propulsion, which was unprecedented in a large warship.

In the early 1950s, the advances in guided missile technology led to a proposal to create a large warship armed with both guns and missiles.

This was the first time a private German shipbuilder was given a contract to build a large warship for the navy.

Last month it withdrew HMS Bulwark, a large warship that had rescued over 3,000 refugees from the area, replacing it with HMS Enterprise, a much smaller vessel that is yet to rescue a single person.

Eventually, the term was used in the general sense of "warship", and was often used interchangeably with another Byzantine term for a large warship, chelandion (χελάνδιον, from the Greek word kelēs, "courser"), which first appeared during the 8th century.

A transition to a few large warships was finalized with the selection of Rear Admiral Alexandrino Faria de Alencar for the powerful post of minister of the navy.

In the hope of luring the privateer into a confrontation, he disguised his large warship to look like an East Indiaman.

The UK has sent more navy personnel to the Rock and military ships have been visiting on their way to other destinations but resisted calls to station a large permanent warship in Gibraltan waters.

If you're a large naval warship, you're literally swimming in the stuff.

A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns.