Battleships

Examples

• All battleships in the United States Navy are now fitted with the gyroscopic compass. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The largest guns of our battleships are of 13 inch calibre, and about 40 feet long, but larger ones are employed for sea coast defenses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In recent great battleships four turrets are used, each carrying three of these great guns, giving a broadside of twelve of these monster weapons of war. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A million veteran fighting-men from Helium's thin waterways man the battleships, the transports, and the convoys, he replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A great fleet of battleships south-south-east, my Prince, he cried. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• England has equipped several of her latest battleships with 15-inch guns and other nations are following in the same direction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Several battleships had escaped, but there were thousands of war and merchant vessels under guard of Thark warriors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The most recent and perhaps most important, however, is _nickel steel_, used in making armor for battleships. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Presently I saw the ten battleships that had been ordered to hold the shaft of Omean. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Several great battleships were lost; they went down in the same clear waters over which the ships of Xerxes had once sailed to their fate at Salamis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was agreed that the battleships that were to be remodelled should be ordered to Hastor, another Heliumetic city, far to the south-west. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Night time is the best and offers the only slender chance we have, for then men sleep, and only a dozing watch nods in the tops of the battleships. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Kantos Kan thought that the docks there, in addition to their regular work, would accommodate at least six battleships at a time. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Form the balance of the battleships into a great V with the apex pointing directly south-south-east. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Dispatch ten battleships to guard the entrance to Omean, with orders to let no hostile enter or leave the shaft. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The fleet of battleships would overtake them on the morning of the second day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Several small craft and two large battleships lay within a hundred yards of Shador. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Its hammer head, in the working-machine, weighs 125 tons, and many of the seventeen inch thick armor plates for our battleships have been forged by its tremendous blows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We travelled very fast and very far due south until the morning of the fifth day we sighted a great fleet of battleships sailing north. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There were about twenty large battleships in all, besides a number of small swift cruisers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• For naval purposes the 14-inch gun is the largest now used in American battleships, but in the United States coast defense forts, 16-inch guns are installed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Kantos Kan and I awaited him upon the little forward deck which corresponds with the bridge of earthly battleships. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Better known to the patrons of our excursion boats and the visitors to our splendid battleships, are the electric search lights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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