Sentence examples for superior ship from inspiring English sources

The award was justified, in part, by the recommendation of Captain Heye, who wrote to the British authorities via the Red Cross, giving a statement of the valiant courage Lt Cdr Roope had shown when engaging a much superior ship in close battle.

They faced occasional Oriental enemies but weathered these dangers with their superior ships, gunnery, and seamanship.

Surplus population, superior ships and weapons, well-developed military organization, and a spirit of adventure seem to have combined to cause this great movement.

There was a division among U.S. naval planners in the early years of the 20th century over whether to have technically superior ships or many less expensive ones, with President Theodore Roosevelt among those supporting the former and Admiral of the Navy George Dewey along with Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan supporting the latter approach.

The story includes the development of stronger, technologically superior Turtle ships.

A battle takes place in the water surrounding the Aztec city on boats, and the superior Welsh ships are able to win.

Although the British fleet was numerically superior, the French ships were larger and stronger, and carried a heavier weight of shot.

With their heavy armament and armor protection (the latter of which made up 23.3% of their approximately 30,000 ton displacement), Hiei and her sister ships were vastly superior to any other Japanese capital ship afloat at the time.

As Washington wrings its hands about dependence on imported oil, American companies will ship a superior, cleaner fuel overseas.

But even if the technology to further automate ships will principally be available at some point, this does not imply that autonomous vessels are also the superior choice for the ship owner.

After an hour of resistance, with Naiad belatedly approaching, Pillon was forced to surrender his ship to superior British forces.