Examples of using Broadside in English and their translations into French
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The move to only 10-inch weaponry was the result of doubt among naval authorities that heavier guns could physically be mounted on a ship's broadside.
the next barrage will be broadside.
Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad The Unfortunate Rake.
Sir Frederick Madden's Collection of Broadside Ballads, at Cambridge University Library,
the next trap but was struck broadside on the weather side by a sudden large breaking wave.
one each in the bow and stern, plus two on the broadside, one firing to port and the other to starboard.
for capital ships of the period, they carried a pair of submerged 21-inch(530 mm) torpedo tubes in the hull on the broadside.
submerged in her hull on the broadside.
This was due to the desire to have some torpedoes remaining after firing a broadside, and problems experienced with centerline mounts on previous classes with torpedoes striking the gunwales of the firing ship.
The Nelsons were the first British battleships since the Lord Nelson class of 1904 to carry their secondary armament in turrets rather than in broadside casemates.
she was also one of the earliest ships that could fire a broadside, although the line of battle tactics that employed it had not yet been developed.
especially from broadside seas, when the wind is from the south-west to south-east direction.
Alceste was firing her broadside into Pomone and simultaneously pressing on all sail in an effort to reach Pauline,
designs of only ten 12-inch guns mounted on the centerline were quickly rejected, even though their broadside was as strong as that of the Minas Geraes class,
the unfolding of the boat broadside to the crests of the waves.
setting the boat broadside to the stream, but the float rod for fishing at a depth of 5-6 meters must have a minimum length of 7 meters,
Its terrain is a rolling peneplain, broadside at a pad of calcareous mountains to the east(the Semnoz,
based on the ideas of General Vittorio Cuniberti who advocated a battleship with main guns of a single caliber and optimized for broadside fire.
Maxim guns), two submerged broadside 21-inch torpedo tubes,
The book also includes a bibliography of the pamphlets and broadsides Fuller produced.