"drill" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She was stationed off the Quiriquina Island and used as drill ship for seaman cadets until 1950.
- Lightning strikes from thunderstorms may cause isolated fires, as happened on a drill ship near the spill.
- After fleet service, the vessel became a drill ship on the Tyne in 1907.
- There had been a drill ship moored in London since 1 April 1862.
- But without a drill ship, further measurements in the hole had been impossible.
- The ocean floor is now riddled with more than 1,000 holes worldwide dug by drill ships.
- One exploratory drill ship produces the smog equivalent of 7,000 cars driven 50 miles per day.
- The drill ship does not strike oil, but does discover a very hard form of diamond which turns out to be Carbon 60.
- M22 was converted to a minelayer in 1920, whilst M23 became a drill ship, surviving until 1959.
- Erne was reduced to a drill ship on 4 June 1952 and renamed Wessex.
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