Large and heavily armoured warship

Usage examples of battlewagon.

He had a single air-tank rig on with a full facemask, because, below the main deck, the mothballed battlewagon had been backfilled with nitrogen gas to displace all the oxygen.

Jap bastards tried to crash their planes into carriers and battlewagons all at once?

Then, long before the end of the fifteen seconds it would take for the first TIMPS and killers to reach their targets, the big Galaxian battlewagons put out their every course of battle screen, torched up their every battle beam, and tore in at full drive to englobe the Commie ships and blast them out of the ether.

I could see the barely larger blips that were the four Star-class Lothar battlewagons in their major compass-point positions.

Every few moments, the little rebel ship returns the fire, until one of the Imperial battlewagons explodes, causing it to fall out of formation.

The same resources could have been used to build a score or more of respectable-sized battlewagons, big enough to do anything you liked, or any number of smaller warships still capable of carrying heavy war-loads.

Searchlights like white sabers, cannon fire as bright magenta bursts against the darkening sky where no stars shone, muzzle flashes from the antiairship batteries of the Austrian battlewagons at anchor below.

Admiral Nishimura would exit the strait with only seven ships: two major battlewagons, a cruiser and four destroyers.

One small ship with minuscule guns had driven the battlewagons into disarray, giving the baby flattops a few minutes of respite.

I remember it because Wisconsin had been the last one of the battlewagons to be reactivated, and yet it was the first one to go back into mothballs after Desert Storm.

Those battlewagons were probably faster, in either kind of space, than any of the big carriers on either side.

I got out the old slide rule one night and ran the figures, and the way I read them our battlewagons are falling below the safety margin.