All the rest they viewed as little more than floating batteries.

It is common knowledge that our floating batteries are still stationed there.

To make her a floating battery, a fortress under sail.

She floats; and as a floating battery - why, I have rarely seen the like!

Russian floating batteries were equipped with similar mounts by 1790.

He need fear no attacks from the river as long as the floating batteries were in place.

They were fast and versatile floating batteries of wood, some with 50 cannons or more.

Have you a name for your floating battery?

The bank messenger was robbed by the two men while travelling to the Stevens floating battery.

Fulton's proposal concerned a floating battery propelled by steam power.

There she was fitted as a floating battery.

The British destroyed three of the floating batteries, which blew up as the 'red-hot shot' did its job.

The two of them have thrown together what Seamount calls 'floating batteries.'

After the floating battery came to anchor, the fort was subjected to a terrific point blank fire.

During the 18th century, another special class of vessel known as Floating battery were devised for shore bombardment.

The Floating Battery fired 490 shots during the action.

She served as a floating battery during the Siege of Leningrad.

Though badly damaged, the floating battery opened fire and forced the Rorqual to dive.

In 1805, she served as a floating battery or guardship on the River Shannon.

This time the Hanseats used floating batteries, too.

She was part of the Dévastation-class of floating batteries.

Material intended for her construction was used to construct a floating battery for the defense of Leningrad.

From the start of the conflict, Kilkis was used as a floating battery based in Salamis.

At Gibraltar he was on board one of the famous floating batteries and was severely wounded.

The cannon was also fitted in large numbers to the Aetna-class ironclad floating batteries, although these had little impact on the war.