floating battery in a sentence

It was so successful because it had defensive armaments and the team was highly maneuverable; they were similar to floating batteries of firepower.
On 28 May 1862 " Ellen " was sent up Folly Inlet to search for a floating battery believed mounted on a hulk.
By 1804 she had been converted to a hulk at Bombay where she served as a receiving ship, sheer hulk, and floating battery.
Between September and October 1803 the Navy had " Musette " fitted out as a floating battery for service on the River Yealm.
On April 2, the flotilla, including both mortars and gunboats, concentrated its fire on the floating battery " New Orleans ."

On 13 September 1782 the red-hot shot to set fire to and sink the attacker's floating batteries and warships in the Bay.
That vessel being absent at the time, he was appointed acting-captain of the 36-gun frigate, employed as a floating battery.
In total, the British lost nine large ships and the entirety of their floating batteries, while the Americans lost five ships and a dirigible.
The Navy also supplied a pair of floating batteries to the attack, but again the waves interfered, and only one of them got into action.
The South Carolinians wanted to convert her to a frigate of 44 guns, but then gave up the idea and made her a floating battery instead.

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