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Sí, descubrió que en ciertas circunstancias podía obtener mayor eficiencia de sus balas de cañón haciéndolas rebotar sobre el mar, antes de impactar en los buques enemigos.
Yes, he discovered that under certain conditions he could get more destructive results from his cannon balls by making them ricochet off the sea before hitting the enemy ships.
Se ha confirmado que hemos destruido 16 buques enemigos este mes.
It has been substantiated that we have destroyed 16 enemy ships this month.
Venecia dependía del mar, lo que la hacía vulnerable a los ataques por el mar, de modo que cualquier aparato que permitiera anticipar la alarma de buques enemigos aproximándose, sería de gran valor.
Venice is reliant on the sea, which makes it vulnerable to attack from the sea, which is why any device that would give you advance warning of approaching enemy ships would clearly be of enormous value.
Dos de los buques enemigos ya se encontraban muy hundidos en el agua mientras las bodegas se les inundaban lentamente.
Already two of the enemy ships were sitting low in the water as their holds slowly flooded.
Sandokán, que con tanta impasibilidad había asistido a la destrucción del buque enemigo, los esperaba en lo alto de la escala.
Sandokan, who had watched impassively as the enemy ship was destroyed, was waiting for them at the top of the ladder.
Su proa larga y puntiaguda estaba reforzada por una lámina de bronce batido para poder embestir a los buques enemigos.
Her long, pointed bows were reinforced with sheets of beaten bronze for ramming enemy ships.
Dejé claro que lo más importante en estos casos es mostrar a tus hombres la posición en brazas que deben adoptar antes de llegar a colisionar con un buque enemigo.
I reiterated that the most important fundamental is to teach your men the brace position that they must adopt before collision with an enemy ship.
Era la misma intervención desde las alturas, pero esta vez en forma de aviones cargados de bombas que se estrellaban contra los buques enemigos dando muerte en el acto a sus pilotos.
This was the same intervention from on high, this time by bomb-laden planes flying directly into the enemy ships, their pilots dying in the act.
La medida más prudente era defender las dos entradas al Solent, de forma que los buques enemigos no pudieran penetrar en su inmenso puerto.
The most intelligent course was obviously to defend the two entrances to the Solent system so that enemy ships could not enter its huge shelter at all.
Sus fusileros, aquellos terribles piratas que casi nunca erraban un golpe, armados de arcabuces de gran calibre, colocáronse en un instante tras las bordas, sobre las cuales amontonaron cuerdas; en seguida abrieron un fuego infernal sobre los puentes de los buques enemigos, para dejar fuera de combate a los timoneles y a los oficiales.
His riflemen, those terrible freebooters who almost never missed a shot and who were armed with large arquebuses, all of good caliber, had arranged themselves in a lightning behind the bulwarks, above which they had rolled up the cots, opening immediately a hellish fire on the decks of the enemy ships, to bring down the helmsmen and officers.
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