Sentence examples for classes of ships from inspiring English sources

This reinforces the need to economize on aircraft carriers and Virginia-class submarines, and divert financing to other classes of ships.

What is Aegis? A. Aegis is the name of the weapon system that goes aboard two classes of ships, the guided missile cruisers and destroyers, which form the bulk of our surface combatant fleet.

Beginning in 1986 separate awards were given to the winners of the two main divisions, or classes, of ships in the Bermuda Race one for the fastest cruiser/racer yacht and one for the fastest grand prix racer.

If many of the details of Romney's plans were murky – Romney never specified, for instance, which classes of ships the US needed to boost – the presence of generations of experienced Republican advisers aligned with Romney provided assurance that the former Massachusetts governor wouldn't be winging it (among them, for instance, was Ronald Reagan's navy secretary, John Lehman).

Published near the end of his life, his Arcano considered ship construction, a plan for building a navy of five classes of ships, and naval discipline; it also contained determinations of longitude, charts based on the map projections of Gerardus Mercator, and designs for instruments.

The national flag is not used by coast guard ships and military warships; both classes of ships have their own specific ensigns.

Between 1893 and 1904, Italy laid down eight battleships; the later two classes of ship were remarkably fast, though the Regina Margherita class was poorly protected and the Regina Elena class lightly armed.

However, it took its name from a class of ships built in Spain and Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Before the Freedom ships there was Cunard's Queen Mary 2 (150,000 tons), and before that was the Voyager class of ships (142,000 tons), also from Royal Caribbean.

At 82,500 tons, the ship is just a touch larger than the three other vessels in Holland America's "Vista" class of ships, with an additional 35 guest rooms, including 18 with verandas.

Either class of ships would represent the most significant weapons transfer by the United States to Taiwan since Mr. Bush's father sold it 150 advanced F-16 fighter aircraft in 1992.