NOUN
- a small battleship built to conform with treaty limitations on tonnage and armament (from 1925 to 1930)
How To Use pocket battleship In A Sentence
- While plans were drawn up in case the raider was a pocket battleship and not just one of the many German merchant ships which had sneaked out of the sanctuary of a South American port and armed herself, the Admiralty signalled to Admiral Lyon and Commodore Harwood that the order recalling the 4th Destroyer Division was cancelled and they were "to be retained in the South Atlantic for the present. Graf Spee
- Sheer senseless destruction to send in a cockleshell like the JERVIS BAY against the might of a pocket battleship, a folly and a bravado, that amounted to nothing less than madness. The Lonely Sea
- In Bobby Collins you had a pocket battleship of an inside-forward who could mix the sacred with the profane.
- The film is based on the British Navy's triumph over a German pocket battleship, the Graf Spee, in the early months of the second world war.
- His physique is now that of a pocket battleship. Times, Sunday Times
- He was a pocket battleship and what made him dominant was the strength of his body and the power of his shot. Times, Sunday Times
- But, if we must keep out of the Baltic because we are not yet strong enough to go in, and if our merchant ships must run the hazards of bubble mines and magnetic mines and pocket battleships and submarine's torpedoes for another hundred days and another hundred days-then I heartily endorse W.J. Stewart, M. P.P.'s condemnation of sneers at Canada's "tinpot" navy. War With the Blinds Down