commerce-destroyer

The commerce-destroyer will have a very short run; it will have to be an exceptionally good and costly ship in the first place, it will be finally sunk or captured, and altogether I do not see how that sort of thing will pay when once the command of the sea is assured.

Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906

The world grows smaller and smaller, the telegraph and telephone go everywhere, wireless telegraphy opens wider and wider possibilities to the imagination, and how the commerce-destroyer is to go on for long without being marked down, headed off, cut off from coal, and forced to fight or surrender, I do not see.

Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906

An enemy commerce-destroyer was lurking about the coast, and she could not be allowed to continue her deadly work, which her resemblance to the

Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905

We have seen that earlier in the war, the carelessness of the British authorities had permitted the escape of ship 290, subsequently known as the Confederate commerce-destroyer, Alabama.

Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North 1901

The commerce-destroyer was attacking a British steamer when the cruiser came up and sent her to the bottom.

History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Richard Joseph Beamish 1895

While there were certain well-known districts, such as these just mentioned, and others before specified, in which from causes constant in operation there was always to be found abundant material for the hazardous occupation of the commerce-destroyer, it was not to them alone that American cruisers went.

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877

The latter give the strongest support, because they are always in the same place, and the approaches to them are more familiar to the commerce-destroyer than to his enemy.

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 1877

Thus the last hours of our veteran Field-Marshal must have been consoled with the reflection that, in spite of the fact of all his warnings and his exhortations having fallen on deaf ears, victory was gilding our arms, as well as those of our Allies, all round; and that the loss of two of our cruisers off the coast of Chile had been more than offsetted by the destruction of the notorious commerce-destroyer Emden in the seas of

The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 Various