Sentence examples similar to millimetre shells from inspiring English sources

Suffren fired thirty 305-millimetre shells and 227 164-millimetre shells during the day.

Diving clubs still visit the site, where armour plate and live 12-inch (305-millimetre) shells remain on the seabed.

Agamemnon was hit by seven 240-millimetre (9.4-inch) shells in ten minutes on 25 February and was holed above the waterline, suffering three dead.

"Some shells from eighty-eight millimexplodedploded all around him in Africa and rattled him a little, but they didn't affect his voice".

In 1953 the U.S. Army introduced the Skysweeper, a 75-millimetre automatic cannon firing 45 shells per minute, aimed and fired by its own radar-computer system.

At the opposite extreme are the complex foraminiferans, which live inside multichambered calcareous shells up to several millimetres in diameter.

The team showed me the translucent trip wires — as thin as dental floss — connected to shells from a fifty-seven-millimetre anti-aircraft gun.

The shells of both species reach about 200 millimetres (8 inches) in length.

Both predator and prey were therefore still juveniles (the oysters' shells had an area of less than a square millimetre).Some of the tanks the researchers used were filled with normal seawater while others contained seawater with twice the usual amount of CO2 dissolved in it.

Adult shell sizes of bivalves vary from fractions of a millimetre to over a metre in length, but the majority of species do not exceed 10 cm (4 in).

The class carried the largest naval artillery ever fitted to a warship, nine 460-millimetre (18.1 in) naval guns, each capable of firing 1360 kg shells over 42 km.