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torpedo boat

NOUN
  1. small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters

How To Use torpedo boat In A Sentence

  • Not fast and agile motor torpedo boats. Times, Sunday Times
  • Due to their low submerged speed, most submarines operated as temporarily submersible torpedo boats, largely sailing and often attacking while surfaced.
  • A torpedo from the Turkish torpedo boat Gairet-i-Millet sank the The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915
  • Two German torpedo boats and a destroyer were sunk and the rest of the flotilla scattered to various French ports. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two German torpedo boats and a destroyer were sunk and the rest of the flotilla scattered to various French ports. Times, Sunday Times
  • These colonial naval forces consisted in the main of torpedo boats, gunboats and other small craft.
  • Seven battleships, six cruisers and several torpedo boats steamed among the trawlers.
  • Originally intended as motor gunboats for convoy escort, they were converted to torpedo boats while under construction.
  • Not fast and agile motor torpedo boats. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Taiwanese navy could acquire new fleets of the most advanced diesel/electric submarines, minesweepers and minelayers and waves of high-speed torpedo boats.
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