Sentence examples for full warships from inspiring English sources

To counter the unexpected ability of midget submarines to take on full warships, the long-term fix will mean greatly expanding South Korea's antisubmarine network to cover vast stretches of water previously thought to be too shallow to warrant monitoring closely — with sonar and air patrols, for instance.

They had 33 warships positioned off the east coast".

Anyway, why is it full of warships?

With American warships full of marines steaming closer to Liberia's coast, an influential Republican senator criticized the Bush administration today for preparing plans to send troops to that country without making a convincing case to Congress, which has just started a month's recess.

Furthermore, this week an unnamed Russian naval source announced that Russia was sending two warships full of marines to its base in the Syrian port of Tartarus in an attempt to secure the safety of Russian citizens in the country, and any equipment at the base.

He pulled out a boy's christening robe full of planes and warships, meant "to give this boy a kickoff into life," he said dryly.

Pentagon officials said the Spanish warships had full legal rights to stop the ship because it was not flying a flag and its official markings were covered by paint.

The general use of iron for warships awaited the full realization of the value of the shell gun and the resulting need for armour, which were first demonstrated in the employment of armoured batteries in the Crimean War and in the battle between the Monitor and Merrimack in the American Civil War.

In Xi's early days in office, the country's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, which was acquired several years ago from Ukraine and then extensively refurbished, was sent with a full battle group of other warships on a maiden cruise straight into many of the most fiercely disputed areas of the South China Sea.

When I was diagnosed, because mesothelioma is said to be 'asbestos-related' and 'work-related', I started to think about my years training in the Royal Navy on the old warships which were just full of the stuff.

He was blamed for the audacious assault on the USS Cole in Yemen last year, when suicidal militants steered a dinghy full of explosives into the American warship in Aden harbour.