Examples from literature

• Admiral Benson gave directions that four coal-burning battleships should be sent over. 
• Before I could reply, white smoke streamed from the battleship's bow. 
• Each of the German battleships immediately took up the position prescribed by the plan of battle. 
• One enemy battleship was fighting us, and had to be destroyed. 
• Some three miles off shore lay the biggest battleship he had ever set eyes on.