Sentence examples for fighting ships from inspiring English sources

Breakdown of fighting ships, passenger liners, specialized ships, such as icebreakers, cable ships, & fireboats.

Henry VIII built a fleet of fighting ships armed with large guns and created a naval administration.

By the middle of the 17th century guns arrayed along the sides of fighting ships were the decisive weapon.

The seas are just too vast, even with their technology and gunnery skills, for fighting ships to get to vessels before the pirates board and capture them.

Naval operations in World War II saw a proliferation of these auxiliary vessels; in 1945 only 29 percent of the U.S. Navy consisted of purely fighting ships.

Italy is known to be building at least seventy-five fighting ships, while Japan is believed to have undertaken an equally large program.

A class of fighting ship that originated with this war is the destroyer killer-the American Atlanta cruisers.

With the dive, Mr. Logie, an investigator for the Civilian Complaint Review Board, became the first known American to dive onto the 600-foot fighting ship.

He wrote much poetry and comic verse during his early school years; he won national acclaim with the publication of "Old Ironsides" (1830), which aroused public sentiment against destruction of the USS Constitution, an American fighting ship from the War of 1812.

The action translates well to a touchscreen, and while the individual elements are fairly simple – sword fighting, ship battles and town raids – as a whole they make for a rich and captivating game, whether you have played previous Pirates! games or are new to the series.

Jones next sailed the Ranger across the Irish Sea to a harbor at Carrickfergus, where he came upon H.M.S. Drake and decided to do what precious few American naval officers had so far attempted -- take on a fighting ship of the Royal Navy.