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Example sentences for "enemy ship"

  • The question was as to whether a certain cargo owned by neutrals, but found in an enemy ship, should be restored.

  • He intended to hang this submarine bomb on the bottom of an enemy ship—and thereby hangs a tale.

  • She also has a double hull which is divided into watertight compartments to protect her from sinking should an enemy ship ram or fire on her.

  • This weather of course pleased the German Captain, who said that no enemy ship would or could board him under such conditions.

  • I answered that I had heard of such being done many times, and reminded him that the Igotz Mendi was painted the Allied grey colour and therefore would not be recognized as a neutral, but regarded by the U boats as an enemy ship.

  • It was only that the Kingfisher discovered an enemy ship layin' explosive mines off the coast and gave chase and sent her to the bottom.

  • If you send a torpedo into an enemy ship from a discreet distance there is no question of sparing life.

  • We shall not see an enemy ship of any sort--except possibly a submarine.

  • If a shell from an enemy ship was to smash the house, the people in the underground shed would be safe, bein' too far off for the chimneys and bricks and things to fall on them.

  • At dawn I made out two masts and four smokestacks; that was an enemy ship, and, what is more, an armored French cruiser.

  • Apparently from wireless calls there was an enemy ship to northward.


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