Sentence examples for battleship off from inspiring English sources

Mr. Crowe plays Jack Aubrey, captain of the H.M.S. Surprise, a British frigate doing battle with a mysterious French battleship off South America.

During World War I the Allies failed to capture it, although a British submarine penetrated the minefields and sank a Turkish battleship off the Golden Horn, an inlet on the Bosporus.

In August 1941, on a battleship off Newfoundland, Canada, Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued a joint statement, the Atlantic Charter, in which they pledged their countries to the goal of achieving "the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny".

Beijing even wanted to play battleship off the coast of Taiwan.

On 18 August 1903, the ship participated in a gunnery trial with the new battleship off Île Longue.

Implacable departed Scapa Flow on 16 October, and a section of her Fireflies spotted the battleship off Håkøya Island near Tromsø two days later.

The two battleships steamed off to the northwest to search for more shipping.

Admiral Hipper rejoined the two battleships off Trondheim on the morning of 11 April, and the three ships returned to Wilhelmshaven, arriving the following day.

I thought I could pull off 'Battleship' without a big star".

But when it comes to late blooming, no Derby champion can compare with Battleship — who fell off the Triple Crown trail and ran his greatest race when he was 11.

The British Force H, commanded by Admiral Somerville and centered on HMS Hood and the battleships, and, arrived off Mers-el-Kébir to coerce the French battleship squadron to join the British cause or scuttle their ships.