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Conning tower   Listen
noun
Conning tower  n.  
1.
The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. (archaic)
2.
The raised structure rising above the deck of a submarine.





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"Conning tower" Quotes from Famous Books



... the "Reale" Veniero's flagship was making a splendid fight. It is the details of those old battles that bring home to us the changes of three centuries. A modern admiral stands sheltered in his conning tower, amid voice tubes and electrical transmitters. Veniero, a veteran of seventy years, stood by the poop-rail of his galley, thinking less of commanding than of doing his own share of the killing. Balls and arrows whistled around him, along the bulwarks amidships his men were fighting ...
— Famous Sea Fights - From Salamis to Tsu-Shima • John Richard Hale


Words linked to "Conning tower" :   war vessel, pilothouse, bridge, U-boat, submarine, wheelhouse, pigboat, bridge deck


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