Sentence examples for gunnery of from inspiring English sources

But, as one reporter noted, the riverboats' upper works and pilot houses "were left to the care of Providence and the bad gunnery of the Rebels".

Chesapeake was moving faster than the Shannon, and as she ranged down the side of the British ship, the destruction inflicted by the precise and methodical gunnery of the British crew moved aft with the American's forward gun crews suffering the heaviest losses.

With support from Lieutenant Commander William Sims, who was able to cite the increasingly accurate long-gunnery of the Navy, and interest shown in the project by President Roosevelt, the bureaucratic stalling ended.

While serving under the commander of the U.S. Asiatic fleet (1901 02), he learned from a British officer, Captain Percy Scott, of the new gunnery technique of continuous-aim firing.

This count demonstrated the poor quality of the Continental fleet's gunnery: all of the casualties were due to musket fire.

With some regret the elder Markham consented to his son's request, and after taking and passing the gunnery part of the examination for the rank of lieutenant, Markham resigned the service at the end of 1851.

In 1903 he was posted aboard, the first of a string of big ship appointments teaching gunnery to the heavy units of the Channel Fleet.

Peer was a Lieutenant Gunnery Officer of the USS Hyman, Destroyer Class, in the Pacific campaign from 1943-1946, and subsequent to the end of World War II served in the US Naval Reserve until 1956.

Soon he was sent to sea again, being made gunnery officer of the battleship Prince George on 8 February 1908.

Parson's task was to improve the gunnery scores of his command, and in this he succeeded.

Dewar became the gunnery officer of the armoured cruiser Kent on 24 August 1905, where he remained until 1908.