Sentence examples for the first two ships from inspiring English sources

The Monitor and the Virginia were the first two ships built by the Union and Confederacy, respectively, that had iron armor protecting their hulls.

Under the plan, Northrop Grumman will restart production of the DDG-51, also known as the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, at its Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., and build the first two ships.

The first two ships had found their anchorages without difficulty, but the third failed to go where it was directed, and so a shot was fired to guide it to a spot near Castle Island.

The first two ships departed England in late March and mid-April and sailed to Boston.

Duke of Edinburgh could not follow the first two ships and turned to port (northeast).

The first two ships were re-rigged as barques after their first commission.

Mr. Gates also said that while he planned to halt a Navy program to build a new class of stealth destroyers, he would finish constructing the first three ships if the contractors agreed to allow all of them to be built at one shipyard instead of the dividing the work between two yards.

The first three ships of the class were built by government shipyards.

Only the first three ships of the class were completed, however.

Steam was provided in the first three ships by twelve ultra-high pressure boilers.

The first three ships were to be laid down in 1912.