How To Use Warship In A Sentence
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The ferries, warships, water taxis, huge container vessels, yachts and fishing tinnies ply with impunity one of the greatest anchorages and working harbours in the world.
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On Navy Day July 27, 2008 the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky spoke of a revival of Russian naval power over the next decade and declared that the navy would add six carrier battle groups to its complement of warships.
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The vessel is surrounded by half a dozen American warships but no moves have been made to board it.
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TWO men were arrested yesterday on suspicion of stealing a cannon and treasures from a sunken 17th-century warship.
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Three large dry docks were built at the end of the 19th century to repair and refit warships.
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The presence of American warships in the area provided a needed measure of political stability.
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The research is designed to determine the number of pygmy blue whales that visit the area, which is also popular with warships and submarines.
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The former Soviet Union had started to withdraw its warships and aircraft from Cam Ran in 1989.
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British and American warships are standing by to evacuate their citizens if necessary.
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Products on sale range from logistics software to tanks, rocket launchers and warships.
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The warship is depicted in full sail as she headed for the battle of Trafalgar and triumph over the French and Spanish fleets in 1805.
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Then it was rolled down to the water's edge along a walkway and loaded on to a powder hoy to be ferried to the waiting warship.
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If diving for wrecks turns you on, Bermuda is a veritable treasure trove of maritime disaster, with a wreck collection including 16th century Spanish galleons, warships and a luxury transatlantic liner.
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During the Second World War, the Royal Navy lost 254 major warships due to enemy action, in addition to 1,035 minor war vessels and auxiliaries.
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I shall move the Trenton into the unexplored quadrant behind the Milky Way and search for any remaining human warships.
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These were more difficult to manoeuvre, but they could carry bowmen and projectiles in their castles and were more suitable for boarding an enemy, even if oar-power remained the handiest means finally to position a warship.
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The jamming caused considerable confusion and slowed the British reaction, and as a result the German warships had passed through the strait of Dover before the first attacks were launched against them.
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The navy is/are introducing a new class of warship this year.
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Stray outside - even to cut a corner between meanders - and you'll shudder onto a mudflat like those raiding warships.
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The £13 million ship, which has been named Research Vessel Triton, is said to represent the most radical step forward in warship design since the introduction of the ironclads.
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The introduction of compound engines in the 1870s made it possible for seagoing warships to dispense with masts and sails.
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China -- Germany renounces in favor of China all privileges and indemnities resulting from the Boxer protocol of 1901, and all buildings, wharves, barracks, forts, munitions or warships, wireless plants, and other property (except diplomatic) in the German concessions of Tientsin and Hankow and in other Chinese territory except Kiaochow, and agrees to return to China at her own expense all the astronomical instruments seized in 1901.
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It was an eerie and sombre scene, a grey warship beneath a leaden sky with the occasional drop of rain falling.
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Three British warships training nearby joined the hunt and a rescue helicopter winched him on board.
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Redrawing the national border for migration purposes will force desperate asylum seekers to try to sail in unseaworthy boats all the way to the mainland, evading and fleeing from warships along the way.
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U.N. representatives joined actors Edward James Olmos, who played the commander of the show's title warship, and Mary McDonnell, who starred as President Laura Roslin, his civilian superior.
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The Prime Minister is expected to be asked to respond to claims that he "guillotined" the military budget while he was Chancellor, forcing helicopter and warship projects to be axed.
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The aircraft carrier group could be comprised of up to six to eight surface warships, two to three attack nuclear submarines, and one or two auxiliary vessels.
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No warships were present, but considerable damage was inflicted on cargo vessels, with which the harbor was jammed.
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In peacetime, the navy's warships are deployed in groups of the same class ship at one base or patrol area, which is called administrative grouping.
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The cheerful officer takes over the station, just as a rogue Minbari warship comes looking for trouble.
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With the arrival of the Age of Enlightenment, the warship was a product with a difference, and the technology used was later incorporated into merchant navy vessels.
Ships, galleons, frigates and corvettes
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The Pentagon ordered up cruise missile attacks from two of the six cruise-missile equipped warships on patrol in the Persian Gulf.
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The number of warships stationed outside European waters roughly doubled.
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Not a large field, it was enough Nerger hoped to cause alarm and tie up valuable warships and minesweepers,
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Depending on the weather, the winner will either fly from Humberside Airport aboard the ship's own Lynx helicopter and land on the deck helipad, or board the vessel from the Humber pilot's boat as it greets the warship.
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IT'S the world's biggest warship - and packs the most powerful punch in naval history.
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Whilst it is fairly certain that they did indeed have figureheads on their ships, only a small elite would have carried them, and they would have all been warships of some description.
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When the end of diesel-hydraulics was announced, the ‘Westerns’ strangely were given an extended lease of life because the policy was to eliminate the less efficient MAN engined fleets first and then the ‘Warships’ followed by the ‘Hymeks’.
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He is an advocate of more airplanes and fewer warships.
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A US warship has seized a group of suspected Somali pirates as well as a so-called mothership after they opened fire on the frigate, officials have said.
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Meanwhile, Lincoln conducted the bloodiest war in U.S. history to preserve the Union, authorized the deployment of deadly new weaponry such as mines, ironclad warships and niter a 19th-century version of napalm, and accepted huge casualties for his chosen cause.
Five myths about Abraham Lincoln
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There are UK warships at harbour here, and off duty squaddies roaring around the streets on mopeds, but what we really came to see is apes, Barbary Apes.
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The change is expected to dramatically refashion a multibillion-dollar contest to build a new class of shore-hugging warships that will specialize in missions like combating piracy or chasing drug smugglers.
Navy May Split Ship Purchase Between Lockheed, Austal
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There was an inquiry into the safety of nuclear-powered warships.
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During her six month-long absence, the warship spent more than four months protecting Iraq's primary oil terminal and shipping lanes.
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In the ensuing sea chase, the trawler collided with another French fishing boat, tried to ram HMS Alderney, and eventually hit the warship while cutting across her bows.
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After the war wardrooms on warships became the place where young officers learned to love their profession and upgraded their naval and general culture.
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To supply warships at sea the ship has three main refuelling rigs and a crane rig for smaller vessels, and the vessel also has a large flight deck and hangar facilities for Merlin helicopters.
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Initially, only one other vessel responded, so Duncan cheekily anchored the two ships in full view of the Dutch fleet, ordering his officers to signal regularly to the imaginary remainder of his warships.
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On the walls of primary schools are large diagrams of submarines and warships built in St Petersburg, showing the torpedo compartments with illustrations of how torpedoes are fired.
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Warships at this time were propelled by a number of oarsmen which rowed the boat if it came becalmed or it was necessary to manoeuvre it in battle.
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The emergence of steam-driven, steel-plated warships created the need for specialized engineering officers in the navy.
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The classic sailing frigate was a fast and powerful warship, and was one of the most successful and charismatic ship designs of the age.
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The painting depicts the last journey of the Temeraire, a famous warship sold by the Royal Navy in 1838.
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Even British jurists agreed that no place could be called blockaded unless watched by a force of warships that cut all communication between the blockaded harbor and the outer oceans.
Castles of Steel
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British warships arrived in Gibraltar yesterday, providing a symbolic reassurance to residents.
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A first day communications intelligence student, aware that Radio Tokyo and Radio Ominato were transmitting to warships using the 11,000 to 16,000 kilocycle range, could consult the Bureau’s charts and could approximate—if not pinpoint—the position of the vessels.
DAY OF DECEIT
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Three large dry docks were built at the end of the 19th century to repair and refit warships.
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The tops, crosstrees and caps of some merchant ships were also white, while clippers and warships and also many merchant ships preferred the more somber black.
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At Athens the the leitourgia was the public service performed by the wealthier citizens at their own expense, such as the office of gymnasiarch, who superintended the gymnasium, that of choregus, who paid the singers of a chorus in the theatre, that of the hestiator, who gave a banquet to his tribe, of the trierarchus, who provided a warship for the state.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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For a majority of each day, the Royal Navy team is patrolling the waters of Gibraltar, checking vessels and escorting warships and auxiliaries of all nations into the busy harbour.
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This applied research programme is intended for use in both existing and future Royal Navy surface warships.
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He is the only junior rating to have a warship named for him, the Collins class submarine HMAS Sheean.
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Unlike the Navy's larger warships, the scout frigate CO's had little more than one-man staterooms to serve as office and sleeping quarters.
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The Monitor was just one of three prototypical iron warships launched in mid 1862.
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Iranaputra didn't know about the others, but he personally found the notion that the gargantuan Drex warship could be "unnerved" highly disturbing.
Codgerspace
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The colossal warships aligned themselves to their correct vectors.
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The Bangladeshi Navy has a number of former British warships in its fleet, according to Jane's Fighting Ships.
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Roosevelt had already pushed neutrality to the limit and had assigned warships to accompany convoys in the Atlantic.
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The British then imposed a blockade which restricted trade with France and the USA and prevented the movement of French warships at Martinique, and of French gold shipped there.
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After 1815 British warships who captured slave ships brought freed captives there.
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Jawara arrived on Sunday on a U.S. warship with about 40 relatives and government officials, including Vice
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So with warships he and his allies established what he called a pacific blockade on Venezuelan ports.
A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge
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Kent is one of the Navy's latest warships, having joined the Fleet in 2000.
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Stray outside - even to cut a corner between meanders - and you'll shudder onto a mudflat like those raiding warships.
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British and American warships are standing by to evacuate their citizens if necessary.
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About 24 British Royal Navy warships as well as 23,000 British troops are in the region.
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On one mission he flew so low over a German warship that he came back with the ship's aerial trailing from his tailwheel.
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The Soviet Pacific Fleet deployed 100 submarines, combined with 140 surface warships, including a Kiev-class light aircraft carrier, to defend its insurance force in the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Smugglers who saw the warship sailing towards them dumped their illegal cargo and escaped back to Colombian waters after a Lynx helicopter from the vessel tracked them down.
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the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific
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Even our mighty warships could only make that crossing in weeks!
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Aid vessels laden with food are escorted by French warships.
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There is a great deal of useful material here, such as how the Romans seem to have conducted an ‘amphibious assault ‘and the frequency that each type of warship (quinqueremes, biremes, liburinians, etc.) was found in the Roman fleets.’
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The warship was a ghost from a bloody past, a death-specter, a haunt.
The Heirs of Babylon
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Two rams and another iron warship were to form the nucleus of a Confederate fleet designed to sweep away the blockaders and challenge northern supremacy in American waters.
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The Register's story says that the virus is affecting Royal Navy warships like the carrier HMS Ark Royal.
Computer viruses hit the military
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It was one of the largest crowds seen at any recent ship's departure and two brows were needed to get the large crowd on and off the warship.
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Consider Reaching for the Out of Reach #11, an animated stereograph of a young boy on a warship during the American Civil War.
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He was given a highly specialized vessel called a patache, which a French text defined in 1628 as “a small warship designed for the surveillance of coasts.”
Champlain's Dream
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S. Navy's Commander Campbell said it would require 60 ships, for example, to place a warship every 13 kilometers along the 772-kilometer corridor through the gulf used by commercial shipping.
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With an almighty boom, the laser detonates, tearing a huge chunk of the warship's hull away as it goes.
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The tiny airships, dispatched from the warships, contained but two men each, and over all cities, towns, and villages they wheeled and curved, one man directing the ship, the other man throwing over the glass tubes.
THE UNPARALLELED INVASION
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Warships at this time were propelled by a number of oarsmen which rowed the boat if it came becalmed or it was necessary to manoeuvre it in battle.
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After the exercise the ship will sail to Palermo where she will berth with the rest of the STANAVFORMED warships.
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The British warships gave chase and should have scored a quick victory.
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The 1950s saw the illegal Suez operation, during which a British warship bombarded Port Said and killed several Egyptian civilians.
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It was the culmination of a busy year, in which the total number of warships and auxiliaries of all nations entering Portland Harbour limits has exceeded 2001's record by almost 50 per cent.
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The enemy warships were disengaged from the battle after suffering heavy casualties.
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Russia intends to send warships, ground forces and long-range bombers.
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This could cripple California's economy and have a more devastating effect than damaging a few warships.
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China found itself up against the fruits of the British Industrial Revolution, pitting junks against steam warships.
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The museum and the warship are open to the public.
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More than 50 British warships, survey vessels, training ships and auxiliaries will be joined by more than 120 foreign warships, merchantmen and tall ships in a review formation at Spithead.
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Rowing a Trireme on the Hudson A group of New Yorkers is trying to restore a full-scale model of the ancient Athenian warship known as a trireme and row it in the city's harbor on July 4 next year.
Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
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The massive energy beams finally found the warship's main reactor and the ship's entire aft section exploded, incinerating any fighters or mercs that were unfortunate enough to be in the area at the time.
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In the medieval period there was no absolute distinction between merchant ships and warships.
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Could it be that the Navy, like its American cousins, is so anxious to get rid of at least a dozen mothballed warships that it will give them away?
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The warship was then hit by a torpedo, which rendered her screws and rudders useless.
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Regular brisk summary hangings at the yardarms of the warships worked wonders.
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Canada doesn't often dispatch warships to respond to political crises, so the Charlottetown is a symbol the Harper government wants to shed the sense it has reacted overcautiously to unrest in the region.
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The 65,000 ton carrier, with warships and support vessels, anchored outside British territorial waters some 30 miles off the Moray Firth, in Scotland.
British Destroyer 'Keeps Watch' on Russian Carrier
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It will be accompanied by five other warships, including destroyers and guided missile cruisers, and a fuel tanker.
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The warships sank one vessel, killing 2 of its crew.
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Britain has a dozen warships in the area, with a total of five thousand military personnel altogether.
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Tracy and I walked the halls, and fucked and ate and sightsaw, and one day wound up in a great dark cavern of the winds, in which were suspended ten thousand interstellar warships, bristling with missile launchers and turrets and ray projectors.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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She is designed to replenish warships with bunker and aviation fuel, lubricants and fresh water.
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As a civilian, the court found Fryatt guilty as a franc-tireur for his attempt to sink a German warship and he received a sentence of capital punishment.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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Warships use energy weapons along with gravimetric based missiles.
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British Admiral Philip Jones will have six warships and three spotter planes at his disposal over the next year for his naval force, dubbed Atalanta, which took over protection duties Monday from four
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The Navy is to launch a new warship today.
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Fuel transfer is accomplished by suspending a hose from a tensioned cable, the jackstay, which runs from RFA Fort Victoria to the receiving warship.
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The Nemesis poked her way ahead through the mud-banks and found a route for the warships, which debouched into the main channel only five miles from the city.
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These ships accounted for the sinking or damaging of a number of warships and merchant ships.
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February 2005 genyidesign commissioned warship design for a 170 - ship logo, cap badge, and armband.
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At the time of the Persian war the trireme was the standard type of warship, as it had been for the hundred years before, and continued to be during the hundred years that followed.
A History of Sea Power
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Now we hear that British warships and bombers may again be heading towards this wretched land.
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The Estonian port of Tallinn was blockaded for a time by Soviet warships.
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In that case British warships were damaged by mines in Albanian territorial waters.
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Then it was rolled down to the water's edge along a walkway and loaded on to a powder hoy to be ferried to the waiting warship.
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A projection on the prow of a warship, used to batter or cut into enemy vessels.
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The Chinese navy now buying sophisticated Russian warships and submarines.
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GERMAN BOMBERS flew across the North Sea to Scapa Flow, a harbor in the Orkney Islands where there were English warships.
Human Smoke
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The pilot and third officer loomed above him, as did the man at the wheel, a bulky German, deserted from a warship, whom he had signed on in Rangoon.
THE SEA FARMER
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A variation is for a pair of capstans (vertically mounted winches), again more common on warships.
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The ship was, of course, a warship whose primary offensive weapon was a beakhead or ram at the waterline.
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The Navy had arrived with impressive looking warships and battleships, armed to the teeth with many a cannon and gun.
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Ship-watchers, mainly Norwegians, were also installed on the Norwegian coast, where German warships lay in wait for Arctic convoys, and reports from them enabled attacks to be launched against them by aircraft and midget submarines.
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The Pentagon ordered up cruise missile attacks from two of the six cruise-missile equipped warships on patrol in the Persian Gulf.
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Coast Guard maritime security cutters will not be frigates, but these categories of warship do bear more than a casual similarity.
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Not only did warships have to be built in Australia but also repaired, merchant ships were also converted for war use.
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When a British warship appears offshore and picaroon pirates launch terrorizing raids on the island in search of rumored treasure, Molly and Rafe warn the residents, save her injured father, and reveal the true identity of Mrs. Ben.
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Three British warships training nearby joined the hunt and a rescue helicopter winched him on board.
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He didn't have the meters of thick ablative hull plating that warships carried.
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Germany lost two warships during this attack.
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Canadian HMCS Charlottetown warship and Italian Tornado fighters are also standing by to support the operations.
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Three large dry docks were built at the end of the 19th century to repair and refit warships.
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The enemy warship tried to bear down on our small airboat.
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They conducted a comprehensive tour of the warship before observing the process of a light jackstay conducted with ANZAC.
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A U.S. warship is patrolling waters near Somalia to find a Japanese ship that was hijacked by pirates.
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The number of warships stationed outside European waters roughly doubled.
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Because warships mounted almost all their guns on the broadside, and were vulnerable to fire from ahead or astern, actions were usually fought in line ahead.
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Warships will accompany the convoy across the Atlantic.
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A New York-based non-profit is trying to restore a full-scale replica of the ancient Athenian warship known as a trireme and row it in the city's harbor.
Rowing a Trireme on the Hudson
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Divers discovered the wreck of an old German warship.
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With the end of the Cold War, several warships were put into mothballs.
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Both were also lauded - Mary for her beauty and grace, the Mary Rose because as one of the first warships equipped to fire broadside, she was a marvel of her time.
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Hmas Stuart one of the Royal Australian Navy's newest warships has been given her pink slip.
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At the start of the war it comprised just 8 small coastal vessels; by its end it had 10 sloops, 3 frigates, 4 corvettes, 17 minesweepers, and a number of smaller warships, and it also had a landing craft wing of 41 boats.
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They both looked like abandoned derelicts compared with the other great warships being serviced in the yard.
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With the end of the Cold War, several warships were put into mothballs.
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And why are British warships being brought in, too?
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In 1942, the Normandie Dock of St Nazaire in German-occupied France was the only Atlantic seaboard facility capable of taking in any large German warship.
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The Pentagon ordered up cruise missile attacks from two of the six cruise-missile equipped warships on patrol in the Persian Gulf.
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As far as surface warships were concerned, the Germans were more than adequately prepared at the outbreak of war.
SAN ANDREAS
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They cannibalized three aircraft carriers and a number of warships to form a task force.
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British and American warships are standing by to evacuate their citizens if necessary.
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Warships have been dispatched to the area.
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He had urged the government in his last letters before leaving France to send it not later than a fortnight after he himself had sailed: The convoy will cross much more safely now under the guard of two warships, he had written to Montbarey, than it will in a month with an escort of thirty, when the English are ready.
Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. IV
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It was joined in chorus by the thunder of the warships' guns pounding the redoubts and the peals of church bells tolling eight o'clock.
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Unfortunately the Nereus is a research vessel, not a warship.
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Instead, the arsenal ship would have relied on other warships to defend it against missile attacks.
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Warships are therefore hermetically-sealed custodians of separate vernacular languages, or gleanings from them.
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Her double hull and heavy sealed compartments along the waterline make her easily the most survivable warship in Naval history.
NIMITZ CLASS
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As a Royal Navy diver he made perilous plunges to help clear sunken warships which were causing hazardous obstructions and in 1942 he suffered a burst right eardrum as a result.
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It is widely recognised in customary international law that the wrecks of warships are entitled to Sovereign Immunity, so they cannot be salvaged without the consent of their Flag State (here the UK) and that title (ownership) is not lost through the effluxion of time, so no question of abandonment of the wreck of HMS Victory by the UK governmet arises.
Odyssey’s Never Ending Quest for Treasure
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Four German warships are sunk and two transports captured.
The Sun
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Geranium, a French warship sent from Cherbourg, was alerting other ships to the wreck while a single buoy marked the spot.
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They cannibalized three aircraft carriers and a number of warships to form a task force.
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At Athens the the leitourgia was the public service performed by the wealthier citizens at their own expense, such as the office of gymnasiarch, who superintended the gymnasium, that of choregus, who paid the singers of a chorus in the theatre, that of the hestiator, who gave a banquet to his tribe, of the trierarchus, who provided a warship for the state.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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The Royal Fleet Auxiliary was born exactly a century ago as the Admiralty sought to make the distinction between warships and the auxiliaries which supported the Royal Navy.
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The ship had been under guard by two Russian warships since then.
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Britain has a dozen warships in the area, with a total of five thousand military personnel altogether.
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The port was coming under attack from enemy warships.
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Seven British warships and support vessels have set off on a voyage around the world to mark the new millennium.
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There is a great deal of useful material here, such as how the Romans seem to have conducted an ‘amphibious assault’ and the frequency that each type of warship (quinqueremes, biremes, liburinians, etc.) was found in the Roman fleets.
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His promotion to a sub lieutenant, following his completion of the 22-week ‘direct entry’ officer's course last year, dovetails well with the RAN's decision to post navel nurses to warships.
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This all-purpose nature determined its classification: instead of being given third rank common for Russian ships, such as small hunter-killer, small missile boat, etc., the new ship was classified as a corvette, which, according to Western standard, is an all-purpose warship.
RIA Novosti
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Hemp for cordage and sails was an early crop in the colonies, and one useful for more than warship construction.
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Britain has a dozen warships in the area, with a total of five thousand military personnel altogether.
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They saw a German submarine resurfacing near their warship.
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Analyzes the process of warship battle damage assessment, gains basic process of warship battle damage assessment.
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In pursuance of that concept, the navies of India and other Commonwealth countries were offered reconditioned Second World War warships from Britain's reserve fleet, vessels that were surplus to British requirements.
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The Queen is to launch a new warship today.
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Some use high-pressure hoses to repel boarders or have built safe rooms where they can lock themselves until a warship arrives.
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He commands an efficient army and a navy with speedboats that can outrun government warships.
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Nelson's Victory, the world's oldest commissioned warship, is indeed in Portsmouth, but it is not, as Hitchens says, "moored as a floating museum.
Letters to the Editor
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Products on sale range from logistics software to tanks, rocket launchers and warships.
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Both carriers have now left the UK to join the growing flotilla of warships and auxiliaries heading for a rendezvous in the Mediterranean.
