Sentence examples similar to draft warships from inspiring English sources
Sackets Harbor, about 60 miles north of Syracuse, was the American military's Lake Ontario headquarters, home to several thousand soldiers, a 32-pound cannon and a fleet of shallow-draft warships.
He proposed that ironclad steam-powered warships of shallow draft be built to operate on the rivers.
Perhaps 25,000 people died digging this canal, yet despite the enormous human cost the canal was too narrow for warships; only shallow draft boats could navigate its course.
The British Admiralty had been considering armored warships since 1856 and prepared a draft design for an armored corvette in 1857; in early 1859 the Royal Navy started building two iron-hulled armored frigates, and by 1861 had made the decision to move to an all-armored battle fleet.
They had a deeper draft than galleys, but considerably shallower draft than traditional sailing warships.
The Swedes began building inshore flotillas of shallow-draft vessels, beginning with smaller versions of the traditional Mediterranean warships, the galleys.
Mr. Hughes and Paul Nitze collaborated on a new draft that included this section, perhaps the most remembered part of the address: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Its warships visit often.
Now Godom warships approach Japan.
