Sentence example with the word 'ironclads'

ironclads

Last update: August 21, 2015


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At the time when further armaments were suspended, the effective strength of the Argentine navy consisted of 3 ironclads, 6 first-class armoured cruisers, 2 monitors (old), 4 second-class cruisers, 2 torpedo cruisers, 3 destroyers, 3 high-sea torpedo boats, 14 river torpedo boats, 1 training ship, 5 transports, and various auxiliary vessels.   [Please select]

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At this time there were only about three ironclads in all the world.   [Please select]

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This was the first battle ever fought between ironclads and it has been called a draw.   [Please select]

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They had also gathered a fleet of ironclads and gunboats further to defend the city.   [Please select]

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His fame was all the greater because in his fleet he had none of the newly invented ironclads.   [Please select]

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The shouts proceeded from a party of sailors on leave from one of the ironclads lying in the harbour.   [Please select]

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On the fourth, Flag-Officer Foote, with seven gunboats, of which four were ironclads, led the way up the Tennessee, against Fort Henry.   [Please select]

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Foote's flotilla advanced gallantly, the four ironclads leading in line abreast, the two wooden gunboats half a mile astern.   [Please select]

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The practice was bad, and none of the boats was hit, but they prudently scurried off up the bay into shallow water where the ironclads could not follow.   [Please select]

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* * * * * Thirty years and more passed after that epoch-making contest between the Monitor and the Merrimac before the world witnessed another battle to the death between ironclads.   [Please select]

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