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Definition of Naval battle
1. Noun. A pitched battle between naval fleets.
Specialized synonyms: Actium, Aegadean Isles, Aegates Isles, Aegospotami, Aegospotamos, Battle Of The Bismarck Sea, Bismarck Sea, Battle Of The Coral Sea, Coral Sea, Hampton Roads, Battle Of Jutland, Jutland, Battle Of Lepanto, Lepanto, Manila Bay, Battle Of Midway, Midway, Battle Of Navarino, Navarino, Cape Passero, Passero, Battle Of The Philippine Sea, Philippine Sea, Santiago, Santiago De Cuba, Battle Of The Spanish Armada, Battle Of Trafalgar, Trafalgar, Tsushima
Lexicographical Neighbors of Naval Battle
Literary usage of Naval battle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1899)
"... Loss OF THE naval battle OF - SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Words fail me to describe the
painful impression produced upon me by the disaster of the four cruisers ..."
2. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1899)
"naval battle OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA. July 3d.—The hostile fleet in sight, about 5
miles distant. At 9.45 the Spanish fleet went out. Shortly after, a violent ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"... Northmen " of the Mediterranean, is the earliest known representation of a
naval battle. i In this bas-relief two distinct types of ves- naval battle of ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... among them that of Maclodio (1427), by which the Duke of Milan lost Bergamo
and Brescia, and the naval battle of Portofino (1431) disastrous to the ..."
5. History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the by John Thomas Scharf (1894)
"THE naval battle IN HAMPTON ROADS. THE first Confederate iron-clad, so unlike in
every respect to any other afloat, the officers and men strangers to each ..."
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