Many of these trees are so large that they would be able to furnish main-masts for fifty gun ships.
We shall capture a gun ship before dawn.
She was converted to an experimental gun ship in 1970.
There was one crucial difference: his heavy gun ships had aircraft to spot for them, and they'd honed the technique in years of practice.
Her duties included guarding the gun ships, sonar tasks and mine watching.
Defence was a 74 gun ship of the line, built in 1815 and broken up in 1857.
Pelican Prize was a 34 gun ship captured in 1653 and sold in 1655.
Ingham was a small six gun ship of 112 tons and she was renamed Independence.
The two big gun ships were pointing at that track-and they now began firing.
The swim crew drew sniper fire for several days until a gun ship (Puff) was called in to remove the problem.