Sentence examples for enemy warships from inspiring English sources

Enemy warships, enemy public ships (such as prison ships), and neutral ships participating in hostilities, on the other hand, are subject to capture.

The vessels were the first ironclads to fight in North America and the first in the world to engage enemy warships.

A flotilla of them captured Confederate Fort Henry on Feb. 6, 1862, and successfully engaged a Confederate squadron in April 1862 at Memphis, Tenn., the first ironclads to fight enemy warships.

The principal armament of the trireme was a bronze-clad ram, which extended from the keel at or below the waterline and was designed to pierce the light hulls of enemy warships.

He said it would have the range to reach enemy warships in the Persian Gulf, apparently a reference to United States warships, which have been conducting naval maneuvers there.

As her father told it, one night two F.B.I. agents came to the Scottoline home and searched it for weapons, contraband or anything that could be used to communicate with enemy warships.

The Hunley was to dive under an enemy warship and drag the torpedo against its hull.

The new missile is among the world's fastest and can outpace an enemy warship, Gen. Ali Fadavi of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards told state television.

SEOUL, South Korea — A propaganda poster recently smuggled out of North Korea depicts the North Korean military smashing an enemy warship in half, a scene evocative of the sinking of a South Korean warship earlier this year.

Researchers say they may have the final clues in the mystery of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, which never resurfaced after it became the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship.

On a clear, moonlight night 150 years ago, the hand-cranked Confederate submarine HL Hunley glided out over glassy seas off South Carolina, sailing into history as the first submarine ever to sink an enemy warship.