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Capital ship   /kˈæpətəl ʃɪp/   Listen
Capital ship

noun
1.
A warship of the first rank in size and armament.





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"Capital ship" Quotes from Famous Books



... naval officers with him and had enough professional seamen to work the vessels and lay the guns. But, though Captain Pringle manoeuvred the flotilla and Lieutenant Dacre handled the flagship Carleton, the actual command remained in Carleton's own hands. The capital ship (and the only real square-rigged 'ship') of this Lilliputian fleet was Pringle's Inflexible, which had been taken up the Richelieu in sections and hauled past the portages with immense labour before reaching St Johns, whence there is a clear run upstream to Lake Champlain. ...
— The Father of British Canada: A Chronicle of Carleton • William Wood


Words linked to "Capital ship" :   combat ship, war vessel, warship


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