Sentence examples for torpedo hit from inspiring English sources

At the moment that the first torpedo hit the cruiser, Coco was resting in his bunk.

He was on watch in the fire room when the first torpedo hit the Utah.

As Laura Lee of The New York Times noted yesterday, "The ship has survived seven bomb attacks, five kamikaze strikes and one torpedo hit".

When the torpedo hit, she put aside her knitting, retrieved her bag and went to her assigned lifeboat in the dark, only to find it had been destroyed in the blast.

When a torpedo hit the ship, a Coast Guard patrol boat, which was about half a mile in front of the Lee, turned back and dropped six depth charges.

One torpedo hit in the stern.

Longitudinal bulkheads in the vicinity of the torpedo hits limited the flooding to one side, causing the ship to heel quickly to the point where normal hull openings were submerged.

After the torpedo hits, Blücher was still within reach.

Yorktown, handicapped by hits from Hiryūs bombers, managed to return to the fight only to take two torpedo hits a couple of hours later.

The torpedo hits—almost all on the port side caused Yamato to list enough that capsizing was now an imminent danger.

The torpedo hits knocked out Karlsruhes power and thus prevented her crew from pumping out the water that was rapidly flooding the ship.