Large warship

Usage examples of cruiser.

Lowbacca warned that the corvettes coming from Myrkr were accelerating and spreading out, and the half-dozen vessels they had been following were turning toward the cruiser.

Whenever those aboard the cruisers wished amusement, they turned their guns on Ancon and knocked over a few houses.

He had to go through the big cruiser as though such a ship was familiar to him, he had to accept references to a thousand things which Zarth Arn would know, without betraying his ignorance.

Enemy convoys passing to and from Africa must be attacked by our cruisers, destroyers, and submarines, aided by the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Air Force.

Eastern Fleet, when it is possible to form one, which is dependent on the availability of cruisers and particularly of destroyers.

Jones was picked up out of the watery vastness of the Pacific Ocean by his own power cruiser, the Bandersnatch, which had for three days been cross-quartering those waters in the vain, despairing hope of picking up some trace of him or his body.

German mines and bombs sank two cruisers, three destroyers, three LST, one LCI and a hospital ship of the Royal Navy, and two mine craft and six beaching craft of the United States Navy, besides two Liberty ships.

It was while he was dividing his thoughts between the enemy cruiser on the main viewscreen and the timetable Spock had worked out for the approach of the creatures to Tendrazin that ho Bem approached him, leaning over the command chair with an apologetic expression on his blue face.

Their assault pods, each designed to carry a single Bolo or a full battalion of infantry, plus vehicles, through planetary defenses for opposed landings, had powerful normal-space drives and battle screen heavier than most heavy cruisers, but were completely incapable of independent FTL flight.

At Minami the TBMs worked for twenty minutes with cruisers and destroyers which were bombarding the island installations, dropping flares and spotting the fall of shot for the ships.

Replacing the usual Buick steering wheel with something that looked like it belonged in a cabin cruiser?

Mon Calamari Star Cruisers were plated and shielded to withstand multiple direct hits, but he thought he remembered several more of the huge, lumpy crafts.

Indeed, the battle cruiser was an impressive warship, an updated and more heavily armed and armored version of the Mon Calamari star cruiser.

The planet of Mon Calamari would, of course, always hold a seat, since their star cruisers and their support had proven so valuable in overthrowing the Empire and establishing the New Republic, but always before - and it was commonly assumed that the tradition would continue in perpetuity - it had been a Mon Calamarian, and not a Quarren, to serve on the council.

Wookiee Triebakk howling out some complaints at Pwoe about a failure in one of the nav systems of the newest Mon Calamari battle cruisers.