Sentence examples for upper hull from inspiring English sources

With her upper hull cut away and armoured with iron, this 263-foot (80.2-metre) masterpiece of improvisation resembled, according to one contemporary source, "a floating barn roof".

She had a full waterline belt, and the upper hull featured a tumblehome.

Construction had barely begun before she was redesigned with an iron upper hull as well as armoured sides and battery.

The first armor-piercing, capped (APC) shell was probably a ricochet and struck the upper hull abreast the bridge.

The other two were mounted in a fixed orientation in the upper hull near the sides of the tank.

The most prominent feature on the vessel was a large cylindrical gun turret mounted amidships above the low-freeboard upper hull, also called the "raft".

The explosion destroyed her upper rear hull, but, miraculously, the rear magazines failed to explode.

False bulwarks were welded to the upper sides of the hull to prevent water from reentering the hull and pumping the water overboard began in May 1941.

They retained the typical monitor overhang introduced by John Ericsson, designer of the, where the upper part of the hull was 42 inches wider than the lower part of the hull.

The upper portion of Atlantas hull received two inches of armor.

The ship's secondary armament of twenty 50-caliber 14-centimeter guns was mounted in casemates on the upper sides of the hull and in the superstructure.