Soon the Canadian announced that the craft was a big battleship, a double-decker ironclad complete with ram.

One of the big battleship's launches put off and steamed over, rolling and pitching on the waves.

The big battleship was now nearing the point where they could expect to meet the auxiliary naval vessel towing the target.

With his hand on the electric speed control Captain Jack moved the submarine in until she lay alongside the big battleship.

I shall be retired, and done with the service, before the big battleship becomes as useless in war as a ferryboat.

The midshipmen, too, hurried forward, mingling with the crew, as the big battleship swung around and tried to find her wake.

Naval authorities join in defending the big battleship which has come into action but little in the course of the war thus far.

He pictured the crew of a big battleship, perhaps two thousand men, standing on parade and coughing in unison while their superiors looked on.

On the 28th of August the three big battleships were sighted coming up the bay in squadron formation.

"The big battleships appeal to me more than does the saddle of the cavalryman."

The next morning the members of the three upper classes had embarked aboard the three big battleships that lay at anchor in the Severn.

"How would you feel if we were running along like this, bent on driving a torpedo against the hull of a big battleship?"