Sentence examples for ship against from inspiring English sources

A two-compartment standard is common for larger passenger-carrying ships a measure that presumably protects the ship against a collision at the boundary between two compartments.

Then I decided to go out into the Hudson River to get pictures of the ship against the backdrop of Midtown as it pulled out.

Dexter, who died in 1990, places all the action on a multitiered set by William Dudley that shows a cross-section of the entire ship against an inky black background.

After sitting out the first game against Portugal (4-0) and coming on to steady the ship against Ghana (2-2), he started all the five other matches and got better with each one.

As fleets composed of these ships engaged in combat, they adopted a fighting formation called the line of battle, in which two opposing columns of ships maneuvered to fire their guns in broadside (a simultaneous discharge of all the guns arrayed on one side of a ship) against each other.

The drone of the ship's engines, the vibration induced by the flow of water against the hull and the occasional slam of the ship against the waves have replaced the explosive sounds of data acquisition and the deeper rumble of the compressors as we push south.

In 1776 it had 27 ships against Britain's 270.

Alfred reorganized his army and used ships against the invaders as early as 875.

Soldiers think they can guard children against drug traffickers, ships against pirates, dirty bombs against proliferation and states against failing.

He was recalled to Spain in 1567 and later helped organize a squadron of ships against the English.

A nautical college in Blackpool is teaching sailors how to use weapons to defend their ships against pirates.