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 ⇄Change DirectionTranslation for 'torpedo boat' from English to Russian
NOUN   a torpedo boat | torpedo boats
военно
торпедный катер {м}
torpedo boat
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Translation for 'torpedo boat' from English to Russian

torpedo boat
торпедный катер {м}военно
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Usage Examples English
  • 97 "Gruppo" (group) and its 239 "Squadriglia" (squadron) sinking the Hellenic Navy freighter "Susanah" off Corfu on 4 April 1941 while the torpedo boat "Proussa" was sunk later in the day.
  • Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain, designed his own torpedo gunboat to combat the threat from the torpedo boat.
  • The government passed the Seat of Government Act 1908, providing for the new federal capital to be in the Yass-Canberra area, passed the Manufacturers' Encouragement Act to provide bounties for iron and steel manufacturers who paid fair and reasonable wages, ordered three torpedo boat destroyers, and assumed local naval defence responsibility and placed the Australian Navy at the disposal of the Royal Navy in wartime.
  • Navy supplier, with Electric Boat receiving orders for 85 submarines, Lake Torpedo Boat building more than 20 subs, and the Groton Iron Works building freighters.
  • In World War II, coastwatcher scout Biuku Gasa was the first of two from the Solomon Islands to reach the shipwrecked and wounded crew of Motor Torpedo Boat "PT-109" commanded by future U.S.
  • It was felt this could be done without air support, because the action would now be much closer to Germany, relying instead on cruiser and torpedo boat patrols for reconnaissance.
  • A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle.
  • On April 23, a council of senior admirals of the Spanish Navy had decided to order Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete's squadron of four armored cruisers and three torpedo boat destroyers to proceed from their present location in Cape Verde (having left from Cádiz, Spain) to the West Indies.
  • Rose comes up with a plan to convert the "African Queen" into a torpedo boat and sink the [...].
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