All of the heavy warships might not have sailed, of course.
Decatur soon realized that the small Intrepid could not tow the larger and heavier warship out of the harbor.
As each enemy ship comes out of the leg, he faces our entire line of heavy warships cutting across his path.
Taken by surprise, German light cruisers were ordered out without support of heavier warships.
Most of the rest of the heavy warships were listing or sinking.
As Admiral Farr has pointed out, we do have more heavy warships than the Land.
The Nova class dreadnought is a heavy warship in the science fiction series Babylon 5.
The department stated in 1905 that the "use of turbines in heavy warships does not recommend itself."
This was the first gunfire attack on the Japanese home islands by heavy warships.
Each heavy warship was given an area on which to fire that, combined with all the ships, covered the entire island.