50 examples of water-line in sentences

She was launched in November, 1906, and had a water-line length of 443 feet; beam, 57 feet; draft of 21-1/ feet, and a speed of 21 knots.

The vast steppes of Russia, the boundary line of the Ural mountains, the greyish-blue of the Euxine, Western Asia, Arabia, and the Red Sea joining the long water-line of the Southern Ocean, were defined by the slanting rays.

But the cruiser's sharp stern cut her to the water-line and sank her; and as her commander swam away, the Königsberg passed, hailed and threw a lifebuoy.

There was then no leak; another proof that the defective places must be sought above the present water-line.

He apparently recognized that the slow revolutions possible with the paddle-wheel did not favor the improvement of the steam-engine along the lines which have since been followed, and he saw clearly that for warship purposes the engines employed, exposed above the water-line to destruction from the shell of an enemy, were entirely out of the question.

Of these a few of the more important may be mentioned, such as the surface condenser, distiller, and evaporator, forced draft for combustion, placing machinery of warships below the water-line, and their protection by coal, ventilation by fan-blowers, together with a vast variety of items involved in the conception and design of the "Monitor" as a whole, and in his other naval designs.

Their water-line has been exposed, evidently for many ages, to the gnawing of the sea at the present level.

A small mussel has pierced the clay banks at the water-line, in such number that they look like honeycombs.

It was from the water-line port-holes of these cabins that they waved their farewells.

When they reach their destined element and have received their lading, the height from the water-line to the deck will be but seven feet; hence it is apparent that a belt of iron plates carried around them of eight feet four inches in height would protect them from the deck to a point sixteen inches below the water-line, or from the bottom of the deck-beams to a point two feet below the water-line.

Its great river, the Saskatchewan, carries a navigable water-line to the very base of the Rocky Mountains.

The Red River of the North, in connection with Lake Winnipeg, into which it falls, forms a navigable water-line, extending directly north and south nearly eight hundred miles.

The apparatus consists of a bellows, placed in each side of the hull of the craft, just below the water-line, and worked by an odd but simple system of ropes and pulleys.

In a quarter-hour more, her stacks had fallen overboard and the hulk lay consumed half to the water-line.

The yacht heeled over till her copper sheeting gleamed above the water-line.

A damaged steamer lay on its side, with only the keel submerged, all its red exterior exposed to the air; on its water-line there had opened a breach, angular in outline.

Near the beginning one cut her own flag-ship almost to the water-line.

Mr. Fison believes that he must have been hacking at the tentacles below the water-line, and have been grasped by them, but, of course, it is quite impossible to say now certainly what had happened.

Simply enough: During the night I had in some waya way still unknown to meopened a porthole below the water-line; and those in charge of the vessel seemed powerless to close it.

In the background was drawn the far-off water-line, over which a few specks of sail glimmered against the sky.

Protection at, and extending several feet below the water-line, is obviously indispensable around the battery of a vessel.

The Stevens Battery, (American,) 6,000 tons, constructed of iron and nearly completed, is 420 feet long, 53 feet wide, and 28 feet deep from the top of the casemate, and is iron-clad from end to end along the water-line.

We were above water-line there in the cockpit; we could feel her flinch and stagger.

He maintains that we have got too much in forward of what he calls the centre of gravity; and he is of opinion that had we been less by the head, the smuggler would never have had the heels of us, in the chase; whereas I invite any man to lay a craft on her water-line" "Show our light!"

Seeing that the Ösel's lower gun-ports were closed, and reasoning from this that she had been struck in the water-line and badly damaged, he was for boarding her at once, but his men refused to follow him.

50 examples of  water-line  in sentences