The design of the Fusō-class battleships was shaped both by the ongoing international naval arms race and a desire among Japanese naval planners to maintain a fleet of capital ships powerful enough to defeat the United States Navy in an encounter in Japanese territorial waters.
Government and ruling party officials have offered a series of rationales for sending the destroyer to the Indian Ocean, from the need to protect Japanese shipping to the ship's powerful air-conditioning, which they say makes it more appropriate than less sophisticated Japanese warships for use in the tropics.
There is even more drama in the next section, which depicts ships battling powerful seas and strong winds.
In his fourth and final voyage, an adventure as Homeric as any found in the pages of history, Columbus explored the coasts of Central America, discovered the Mayan civilization, battled mutineers within his own ranks, piloted his ships through powerful gales, was marooned on a Jamaican beach for an entire year and cowed a group of menacing Indians by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse.
When anti-piracy naval flotillas began arriving in force a couple of years ago, the pirates quickly worked out ways to roam farther by using "mother ships", often powerful deep-sea fishing vessels seized earlier, as floating bases for their fast skiffs (see map).
PARIS — A Danish pharmaceutical company said Friday that it would stop shipping a powerful drug to American prisons that carry out the death penalty by lethal injection because some states began using it as a substitute for another compound that was taken off the market.
Yu said Chinese authorities acted on a tip from their American counterparts and seized 4.7 kilograms of fentanyl from a factory that was shipping the powerful synthetic opioid to customers in the U.S. using the online pseudonym "Diana".
This arrangement, however, left Wyoming the third-most powerful ship of the division as the spare ship because she lacked a matched pair.
She was a frighteningly powerful ship, a vessel that, together with her sister ship Black Prince, soon became the pride of the Royal navy.
