floating fortress

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Just like that Roger Moore film, Black Widow climaxes with a battle aboard a floating fortress designed by a megalomaniac genius.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2021

All the men swung their hammocks on board their floating fortress, and were quite secure from any intrusion of the savages.

From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

She was a floating fortress, with men enough to make up the population of a town, and with stores, ammunition, and coal sufficient to last for a long term of active service.

From The Great War Syndicate by Stockton, Frank Richard

The Renown herself, whose ram had caused the fearful disaster, had not escaped without severe injury in the collision, which had shattered the mighty floating fortress in all its joints.

From The Coming Conquest of England by Niemann, August

She is a monstrous, impregnable floating fortress, and will work a revolution in shipbuilding.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael