conning tower

How To Use conning tower In A Sentence

• Somehow he endured it, but he felt light-headed and his legs were rubbery when he clambered up the conning tower ladder onto the bridge. LOHENGRIN
• The A7 was the first submarine in the Royal Navy to be fitted with hydroplanes on her conning tower.
• She carries an obsolete "barbette" conning tower -- a six-foot affair with railed platform forward -- and our warning beam plays on the top of it as a policeman's lantern flashes on the area sneak. Actions and Reactions
• The orange conning tower sits abandoned on the dock amid odds and ends of superstructure.
• The orange conning tower sits abandoned on the dock amid odds and ends of superstructure.
• The submarine has a conning tower and torpedo tubes. Times, Sunday Times
• There was the conning tower with the periscope easily identifiable inside; there were the access hatches.
• His tail - seemingly disembodied from his body - trails behind him like a submarine conning tower.
• The first thing they knew was Grant came blinding along at an absolutely unheard of speed for a Destroyer following up a Convoy, hitting them half way between the conning tower and tail.
• Visitors can try out a submariner's bunk, learn how to control the boat as it dives, look through the periscope, detect underwater sounds on a hydrophone, climb into a mock conning tower and operate an escape chamber.