What is "torpedoing"

Usage examples of "torpedoing".

The earlier torpedoing had been faked, and there had to be a reason for that.

The one into which the water had been admitted by the phony torpedo explosion—no one of the prisoners had yet realized that the torpedoing had been fake, however—the night before.

It was worth torpedoing, but the attack might trigger SOS signals and a full air-and-sea submarine search in the Sea of Japan.

The torpedoing was to be done by the U-boat of another nation, disguised as a submarine belonging to my country.

He had not the least belief in their ability to descend the Ulanga, and no greater belief in the possibility of torpedoing the _K”nigin Luise_.

Allnutt was by now quite sure that she would be right again in the matter of torpedoing the _K”nigin Luise_, and he was ready to follow her into any mad adventure to achieve it.

All the voyage so far had been designed for one end, the torpedoing of the _K”nigin Luise_.

It demanded that the crew of the submarine and the officers who ordered the torpedoing be court-martialed and shot.

And even if your crippled engine would stand the strain, I wouldn't advise you to come chasing after that ship with ideas about torpedoing it or anything of that dramatic sort.

I was quite confident of her torpedoing ability but not of my fitness to play a star part as a dour and fear-inspiring background.

Though it seemed that Germany's announcement of unrestricted torpedoings of American ships had made, as Bernstorff himself had warned in cables read by Room 40, "war unavoidable," the American President seemed unable to do what the British thought that honor, self-respect, and the whole course of recent actions made obligatory.

April 7, 1945, and after less than two hours of repeated bomb-hits and torpedoings, the world's largest battleship slid to the bottom, rumbling and exploding, and taking with her 2,488 officers and men of her complement of 2,767.

In the circumstances it was an astonishing and commonplace fact that men who had survived two or three torpedoings and sinkings would immediately, on their return to Britain, seek out another ship to take them to sea again.