conning tower
Example Sentences
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The wind appeared to affect just one 3-point shot as the six-level conning tower and the scoreboard blocked most of the wind off the Pacific Ocean.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2022
The cleanup mission focused on the submarine’s conning tower and the front outer hull.
From Reuters • Jul. 31, 2020
But its hull, conning tower and deck gun — nicknamed “Peterle,” little Peter — are still there.
From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2016
Mundy could see that the submarine before him was roughly two hundred and twenty feet long, with guns mounted on the conning tower and a painted image of a laughing cow, in red.
From The New Yorker • May 28, 2016
And then the lighthouse beam swept past, and in its gleam I realized they weren’t fins at all but a conning tower and a giant bolted-down gun.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
