Sentence examples for fast vessels from inspiring English sources

The errors that occur in aircraft and small, fast vessels during alterations of course or speed can be avoided by mounting the compass on a platform kept horizontal by a gyroscope.

The glare from the laser is intense enough to make it impossible to aim the weapons typically used by pirates, such as AK47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.Each laser has an integral radar to help it lock automatically on to the small, fast vessels usually used by Somali pirates.

"Harbours and sea lanes were filled with submerged mines and nets designed to stop the big battleships, but small, light boats could get over them and get in close". With a stalemate between the battleships, the Admiralty saw the potential of fast vessels which could get past defences, launch attacks and then run for safety.

Century City-based Northrop will contribute its shipbuilding knowledge as Raytheon designs the littoral combat ship, a new class of small, fast vessels capable of fighting in shallow coastal waters, Raytheon said.

Watching Brest were a large number of warships, divided into the inshore squadron designed to watch the coast directly and formed principally of frigates and small fast vessels, and the offshore squadron formed from heavy ships of the line and tasked with intercepting French fleets and battle squadrons spotted by the inshore squadron.

Despite his famous insistence on a fast vessel, Jones's flagship, an old Indiaman renamed the Bonhomme Richard in honor of Benjamin Franklin, was, according to Thomas, a "slow tub".

Recirculation facilities are often very elaborate, using fast vessel-exchange systems or even two operating vessels at one station to achieve high production rates.

The armoured cruiser was developed in this period as a large, fast vessel armed with intermediate-calibre guns and protected by armoured deck and medium-weight belt armour.

This time we were on a modern fast vessel, and the six-hour trip, to the port where gold-rushers once set off along the Chilkoot Pass trail for the Klondike, seemed to fly by.

Cunard had faster vessels on the north Atlantic Germanyy was about to put into service a significantly larger one.

Voyager is one of the fastest vessels we've ever blown out of Earth's gravity well.