They were the longest single-screw warships ever built.
A July Economist article noted that the entirety of east Africa lacks a single modern, operational warship of any significant size or capability.
Directed by Albert Parker, "The Black Pirate" may lack the narrative dynamism and visual expansiveness of Fairbanks's work with Allan Dwan Robin Hoodod," 1922) and Raoul Walsh ("The Thief of Bagdad," 1924) -- apart from one virtuoso sequence in which Fairbanks, an aristocrat in disguise as the title character, scurries up the stern of a gigantic warship and takes it the vessel single-handedly.
With such demands for power, some of it only for a fraction of a second, warship designers are keen to have a single system doing all manner of things.
The navy's "Co-operative Engagement Capability" enables several warships to combine their radars into a single, more powerful one, available to each ship.
When the Regia Marina did not pursue his ideas, Cuniberti wrote an article in Janes proposing an "ideal" future British battleship, a large armored warship of 17,000 tons, armed solely with a single calibre main battery (twelve 12-inch {305 mm} guns), carrying 300 mm belt armor, and capable of 24 knots (44 km/h).
Sinking a warship, especially a big one, is unlikely with a single missile, whether supersonic or not.
It took months for it to agree to a statement condemning the sinking of the Cheonan warship in March, killing 46 — and that failed to single out North Korea by name.
UNITED NATIONS -- Key Security Council members have agreed on a statement, presented to the council on Thursday, that condemns the sinking of a South Korean warship that left 46 sailors dead, but avoids singling out North Korea for the attack.
