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Conning tower   Listen
noun
Conning tower  n.  
1.
The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. (archaic)
2.
The raised structure rising above the deck of a submarine.





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"Conning tower" Quotes from Famous Books



... with auxiliary and steering and controlling apparatus there. This was to be used when the ship was moving along on the surface of the ocean, or merely with the deck awash. There was a small flat deck surrounding the conning tower and this was available when the ...
— Tom Swift and his Submarine Boat - or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure • Victor Appleton
... out and went along the shore, keeping a sharp lookout. They sighted a submarine off Cove, near the mouth of a little creek. One of the men on shore fired two shots with a rifle at the man in the conning tower of the submarine. The submarine dived immediately, but soon rose again further out. Three more shots were fired at her and she ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various


Words linked to "Conning tower" :   pigboat, bridge deck, bridge, wheelhouse, war vessel, submarine, U-boat, sub


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