Sentence examples for they were warships from inspiring English sources

By 13:00, Dance had readied his guns and reformed his convoy, with the large Indiamen formed up in line of battle to receive the French attack as if they were warships.

Dance ordered the brig Ganges and the Indiamen Alfred, Royal George, Bombay Castle and Hope to approach the strange vessels and investigate, rapidly discovering that they were enemy warships.

Nor are warships always ideal for the job.

Among the exceptions are warships, two of which it has on order from France.

They are the warships that the Russian Navy's commander in chief, Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky, said, glowingly, would have allowed his forces to complete its tasks in the 2008 invasion of Georgia in 26 minutes instead of 40 hours.

While they are indeed warships, they're not simply for fighting other navies.

"290" was ostensibly to become an unarmed merchant vessel, but there can be little doubt that the Laird brothers knew they were building a warship for the Confederacy.

They were the United States warship Kearsarge and the Confederate sloop-of-war Alabama, a raider that preyed on Union merchant vessels.

By World War II they were so effective against warships that they sank nearly as much aircraft carrier tonnage as was sunk by aircraft.

Mr. Sugule acknowledged that they were now surrounded by American warships, but he did not sound afraid.

From the Agency's history: Had the British sent in the paratroops and warships, as they were to do a few years later against the Egyptians at Suez, it was almost certain that the Soviet Union would have occupied the northern portion of Iran.… It was also quite probable that the Soviet army would have moved south to drive British forces out on behalf of their Iranian "allies".