Sentence examples for copper sheathing from inspiring English sources

The bolts fastening its timbers and copper sheathing on the bottom were made by the silversmith and patriot Paul Revere.

"The big clue is the copper sheathing on the bottom of the hull," said Dr. Kevin J. Crisman, a professor in Texas A&M's nautical archaeology graduate program.

In the actual attack, however, the Turtle was unable to force the screw through the copper sheathing on the warship's hull.

Curiously, the ship also appears to have had a layer of "sacrificial planking" -- a thin, protective layer of wood that could be ripped off if it became infested with worms -- but the copper sheathing would have made that superfluous.

This time the craft's operator succeeded in boring a hole in the ship's copper sheathing, but the screw broke loose as the explosive was being attached to the ship's hull.

During this period, he examined magnetic phenomena caused by electricity and electrochemical methods for preventing saltwater corrosion of copper sheathing on ships by means of iron and zinc plates.

The entire property was rewired with special cabling, copper sheathed (fire and rodent proofed).

"And after a while you'll hear a deep voice saying, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?" Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper sheathed, one and indivisible, or he's liable to rear right out of the ground".

It was also the first major naval victory for the British over their European enemies in the war and proved the value of copper-sheathing the hulls of warships.

These devices, which were intended to relieve the monotony of sun-dried brick or mud plaster, include a huge copper-sheathed lintel, with animal figures modeled partly in the round; wooden columns sheathed in a patterned mosaic of coloured stone or shell; and bands of copper-sheathed bulls and lions, modeled in relief but with projecting heads.

Up close, it looks like dirty cotton stuck to a wound, fine gray strands of it puffing up over the copper and cast iron, sheathing our cookware in darkening clouds of mold.