Sentence examples for naval ordnance from inspiring English sources

He continued his interest in gunnery after the war and in 1933 became director of naval ordnance.

Improvements in naval ordnance and the spread of metal-hulled ships soon made the ram obsolete again, however.

South Charleston was founded in 1916, and its development began with the establishment of several chemical companies and a U.S. naval ordnance plant (1917).

The community expanded industrially with the acquisitions in the 1940s of a large naval ordnance plant and a phosphate reduction works.

He also helped build the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, Calif., and was acting director of research there until 1944.

He joined the Royal Naval College in 1883 and became a gunnery expert, and in 1888 he was appointed to the Admiralty as an assistant to the director of naval ordnance.

His interest was strictly tied to his military and naval responsibilities at the Ordnance Office, in the Tower of London.

In September 1889, he moved to the Washington Naval Yard to teach ordnance.

Therefore, tools fabricated out of beryllium are used by naval or military explosive ordnance disposal teams for work on or near naval mines, since these mines commonly have magnetic fuzes.

These became basic tools of classification and remained so into the modern era with certain categories of ordnance such as large naval guns.

Many of the neighborhood's 34,000 residents live below the poverty line, a legacy of separation from the rest of the city and the area's history as a former naval shipyard where radiological research and ordnance testing were carried out.