torpedo boat in English

noun
1
a small, fast, light warship armed with torpedoes.
A8, in company with A7, a torpedo boat and the cruiser HMS Forth, parent ship of the submarine squadron, had left Devonport in the morning for exercises off Looe, carrying a crew of 12 and seven trainees.

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1. The torpedo boat sheared through the waves.

2. The torpedo boat Cigno was able to escape.

3. North Korean Torpedo boat that supposedly sunk the Baltimore.

4. At 6:20, Beatty's destroyer screen came into contact with the German torpedo boat V155.

5. Glenn had been on a PT (patrol torpedo) boat and was assigned to the engine room.

6. By Bemute posted in: Uncategorized 0 On 4 March 1942 the Elco shipyard located in Bayonne, New Jersey (USA), launched a 80 feed torpedo boat, named Torpedo Boat PT 59, ordered by US Navy for the use in the Pacific Ocean, to counter the Japanese fleet, …

7. The Brave-class, Brave Borderer (P1011) is a rank V British motor torpedo boat with a battle rating of 3.3 (AB/RB/SB)

8. Within a few years, the principal threat was from the destroyer—larger, more heavily armed, and harder to destroy than the torpedo boat.

9. The French navy, an extensive user of torpedo boats, built its first torpedo boat destroyer in 1899, with the Durandal-class 'torpilleur d'escadre'.

10. The capsizing of the torpedo boat Tomozuru in 1934 forced the Navy to re-evaluate the heavy armament of the Hatsuharu and other classes.

11. The fleet, along with several German U-boats, assembled at Skagen on 12 July to practice torpedo boat attacks, individual ship maneuvers, and searchlight techniques.

12. In a case of mistaken identity on 17 March motor torpedo boat PT-283 was sunk by friendly fire from destroyer Guest (DD-472), in the Solomons, near Choseul Island.

13. Bombarde, a French Navy La Melpomène-class torpedo boat, commissioned 1938, later captured by Italy in 1942, and then by Germany in 1943, and sunk by US aircraft in 1944

14. This, in turn, was approved by the Board on March the 16th with only minor changes, such as the reduction in the anti-torpedo boat armament from twenty to eighteen 12-pdr guns.

15. Battleships A battleship entering service in 1900 typically mounted a mixed battery of four heavy (11- to 13.5-inch) guns in two twin turrets, about a dozen secondary guns of six to nine inches, and small, fast-firing guns of three inches or less for beating off torpedo-boat attacks