Sentence examples for naval armament from inspiring English sources
The show of naval armament in New York alone vastly exceeds the nine-mile array witnessed here last year.
By that time Germany had discontinued its four-per-year naval vessel production rate and had abandoned the naval armament race with Britain.
This technology affected both the design and assembly of mechant vessels, and also modes of naval armament.
The unveiling "set ablaze the big naval armament race with Germany, who was determined to keep up with us", says Roberts. "Once we'd launched Dreadnought, she had to have Dreadnoughts, and better Dreadnoughts, and as she built her Dreadnoughts we progressively had to build more, bigger, and more powerful Dreadnoughts".
In December 1775 Hopkins was on a committee to report a plan for furnishing the colonies with naval armament.
The adoption of iron armor meant that the traditional naval armament of dozens of light cannon became useless, since their shot would bounce off an armored hull.
As secretary of state under President Calvin Coolidge (1925 29), Kellogg generally followed an isolationist policy regarding European affairs, but he helped arrange an international conference at Geneva (1927) that sought unsuccessfully to limit naval armaments.
In foreign policy, his negotiations with the British over reduction of naval armaments (March 1909 and February 1912) came to nothing because of the opposition of German admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, supported by William II (Kaiser [emperor] Wilhelm II).
As the ultimate limit state is now a primary criterion for ship structural design, multi-objective optimization techniques for both minimizing weight and maximizing safety are routine practices in the structural design of naval ships as such techniques are critical for determining the structural weight needed to meet the functional requirements associated with naval armaments.
The third limited the naval armaments of both countries.
She was launched on 1 September 1921, but on 8 February 1922, two days after the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armaments, all construction work ceased on the 75.9% completed dreadnought.
