Despite an intense international mine-clearing effort, two massive warships -- the amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli and the USS Princeton, a high-tech guided missile cruiser -- were rocked by explosions that set off fires and flooding below decks.
The Bay waters are roiling at pier 65, where a brace of massive gray warships are tied up along the waterfront.
The U.S. force which is called for is massive: a virtual flotilla of 46 warships accompanied by 7,000 Marines and five planes.
The fleet rendezvoused with the light cruiser, before meeting a massive flotilla of some 370 British, American, and French warships for the voyage to Scapa Flow.
The massive flotilla consisted of some 370 British, American, and French warships.
Fear of a possible military confrontation led to a massive buildup of coastal defences and to the acquisition of an ironclad warship.
More important, with a huge budget deficit and massive national debt, the United States needs to cut back on the number of warships deployed around the world for non-defense purposes -- that is, for expensive gunboat diplomacy.
In dramatic scenes 120km off the west coast of Greenland, a Greenpeace inflatable speedboat evaded a Danish navy warship, allowing Kumi Naidoo and two activists to clamber aboard one of the massive legs of the Leiv Eiriksson, a 52,000-tonne rig.
In a warehouse in Yokosuka City, Japan, bisected by an old loading tunnel for warships, 130,000 knobby pieces of charcoal hang from strings, clinking like a massive wind chime.
