Sentence examples for into a warship from inspiring English sources

China was modifying a medium-range space-faring ballistic missile, the DF-21, so it could re-enter the atmosphere and nosedive, at about two kilometres a second, into a warship and detonate conventional explosives.

HMS Vigilant was a merchantman converted into a warship during the American Revolution.

The United States is preparing to send a warship into the Black Sea for the first time in four years, heightening tensions after the Russian seizure of Ukrainian sailors last month.

To emphasise this point, it sent a warship into the area after test drilling started last year.A pipeline to Greece, connecting with Europe's distribution system, would be longer, costlier and riskier.

Last Friday, Dec. 5, the Russian Navy sailed a warship into the Panama Canal the first time since World War II.

The contested region holds crucial shipping lanes - which prompted the United States to send a warship into the area in October.

Actually the swift modern merchantman may be converted into something closely approaching a warship in comparatively little time and at comparatively little expense.

On the night of Feb. 17, 1864, the crude Confederate vessel — which was made from a boiler, had no extra air supply and was powered by a hand crank — rammed a torpedo into a Union warship anchored off Charleston.

These became more urgent in October 2000 when a dinghy charged with explosives was driven into an American warship off the Yemeni port of Aden, killing its own crew and 17 sailors.

The submarine Greeneville, widely known for its deadly collision with a Japanese trawler last year, bumped into an American warship in the Arabian Sea on Sunday, causing no injuries but leaving a gash in one of the ship's fuel tanks, the Pentagon said today.

These problems, coupled with the fact that she was too slow to work with the fleet as originally envisioned, meant that she was impossible to make into an effective warship and she was laid up after her trials.