conning tower
Example Sentences
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The DLR Group presented a design that included the submarine conning tower in the outdoor pool.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023
The wind appeared to affect just one 3-point shot as the six-level conning tower and the scoreboard blocked most of the wind off the Pacific Ocean.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022
The cleanup mission focused on the submarine’s conning tower and the front outer hull.
From Reuters • Jul. 31, 2020
Mundy could see that the submarine before him was roughly two hundred and twenty feet long, with guns mounted on the conning tower and a painted image of a laughing cow, in red.
From The New Yorker • May 28, 2016
Hulls lay like chunks of cleavered fish: a conning tower here, a crew quarters there, the prow of an oil tanker pointing straight up to the sky.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
