conning tower
Example Sentences
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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
"You knew you were about to go off on a real sneaky, though," says Nobby, "because someone would paint out the numbers on the conning tower."
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2013
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
