Sentence examples for battleship only from inspiring English sources

As concerned as Riley was for Mourning, the never-say-die coach, in Brunson's professional assessment, was "deflated," and the image he had was of a driven admiral who had polished his battleship only to watch helplessly as "the anchor goes down".

In addition to saving time, this also made New Jersey cheaper to reactivate since the cost needed to modernize the battleship only included the addition of missile and gun system mounts, electronic warfare suites, and improved radar and gun spotter technology.

Thus the five Borodino-class battleships only had tumblehome hulls fore and aft of their 75 mm guns emplaced along their sides.

She did not engage the German battleships, but only fired on the minesweepers and any German ships such as the armored cruiser when they approached the other Russian ships.

The US Congress authorized the Navy to build two battleships, but of only 16,000 tons or lower displacement.

The mistake of building a battleship of only 10,000 tons was not repeated in the subsequent, and much more successful,.

The Home Fleet initiated a further four raids against Tirpitz between April and July 1944, though the battleship was only attacked during the last of these operations.

Dubbed "Hotel Yamato" by the Japanese cruiser and destroyer crews stationed in the South Pacific, the battleship spent only a single day away from Truk between her arrival in August 1942 and her departure on 8 May 1943.

The starboard wing of the plane was thrown far forward, starting a gasoline fire at 5 inches Gun Mount No. 3. The battleship suffered only superficial damage, and the fire was brought quickly under control.

To use an analogy to a famous pad-and-pencil game: the battleship is only sunk when all parts of it have been hit.

His 1961 "Pigs and Battleships" not only is fascinating for what it anticipated in Imamura's work but also is exciting in its own right...