Meanings of great battleships in English

Steaming majestically toward them came five great battleships flying the Stars and Stripes.

But already there were forty of the great battleships rising to meet them.

The other two great battleships turned and headed back in the interests of humanity.

These three great battleships were the "Massachusetts," the "Iowa" and the "Indiana."

They stood out in the moonlight as cleanly cut as the bows of great battleships.

The greater part of the Thessian fleet had already fled, but there remained half a hundred great battleships.

Occasionally some dweller along the coast might see an occasional cruiser or destroyer sweeping by in the distance, but the great battleships had gone.

But the ascendancy of fleets of great battleships in naval warfare, like the phase of huge conscript armies upon land, draws to its close.