floating fortress

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Just like that Roger Moore film, Black Widow climaxes with a battle aboard a floating fortress designed by a megalomaniac genius.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2021

Mr. Charles Johnson went up to Kenowit directly, taking the Bishop's yacht, the Sarawak Cross, as his floating fortress.

From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by McDougall, Henriette

The Renown herself, whose ram had caused the fearful disaster, had not escaped without severe injury in the collision, which had shattered the mighty floating fortress in all its joints.

From The Coming Conquest of England by Niemann, August

The floating fortress attacked the Cumberland, ramming that vessel, and breaking a great hole in its side.

From The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Mann, Henry

"That's the conning-tower of this here little floating fortress," chuckled MacNutt, at her shoulder.

From Phantom Wires A Novel by Brown, Arthur William