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Use "ship-to-ship" in a sentence
"Philip Broke of His Majesty's Frigate Shannon challenged the Chesapeake rebuilt from her 1807 wounds to a ship-to-ship duel off Boston harbor in June 1813."
"But the Admiralty sent a "secret & confidential" directive to all British captains forbidding any further ship-to-ship combat with those pesky, heavy American frigates."
"PaperSmyth, I challenge you to ship-to-ship combat!"