pocket battleship

These were called "pocket battleships" in the outside world.

Deutschland-class ships continue to be called pocket battleships in some circles.

"You fixed the engines on a pocket battleship?"

In spite of its name, this type of vessel is completely unrelated to the pocket battleship.

Sadler was a small player known by the British press as "the pocket battleship" for his strength.

"We were described recently as a pocket battleship," says Huw approvingly.

She was launched in 1922 and sunk on 5 November 1940 by the Germany pocket battleship .

Harwood's combat policy of three cruisers versus one pocket battleship was to attack at once, day or night.

Britain had only three battlecruisers to match the three German pocket battleships.

There could be no escape now and the two pocket battleships, Kennedy knew, could pound his fragile vessel to death in a matter of minutes.

This time his fleet was on temporary deployment to the Blue Luna, the fleet's pocket battleship.

Manager Lee Clark described him as a "pocket battleship", who plays at a high tempo with "so much energy and enthusiasm".

Kennedy identified it as the German pocket battleship Deutschland.

It sortied immediately, as German pocket battleships were reported seen, wrongly, to stop them from passing into the Atlantic.

In Bobby Collins you had a pocket battleship of an inside-forward who could mix the sacred with the profane.

Germany was represented by the new pocket battleship Graf Spee.

The pocket battleship Lützow was attacked on 16 April 1945 by 617 Squadron.

At the end of 1934 he became commander of the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.

Three days later the press announced that the pocket battleship had scuttled herself in the Plate estuary just outside the Uruguayan capital.

The Reichsmarine tried to meet the arms restrictions with secret armament and technical innovations such as the introduction of the pocket battleship.

In May, the Committee noted an attack on the German pocket battleship Deutschland.

In-between these terms, from 1937 to 1940, he was commanding officer of the German pocket battleship Deutschland.

The initial impetus for the design of the Alaska class came from the deployments of the so-called pocket battleships in the early 1930s.

Instead I renamed her Scheer and left her a pocket battleship, which opens possibilities for later books in the series.

In the Atlantic, the Germans experimented with taking the battleship beyond conventional fleet action, using their pocket battleships as independent commerce raiders.