The navy's progressive element, led by the First Sea Lord, Sir John Fisher, was more concerned with transforming its obsolete coalfired vessels to oil.

In 1946 the Swayback Maru and other obsolete vessels served as part of the atomic bomb test fleet near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

In any case, these obsolete vessels were wooden hull ships covered with just a layer of metal.

Admiral Montojo, who had been dispatched rapidly to the Philippines, was equipped with a variety of obsolete vessels.

The last-minute change in plans meant that the British squadron was composed almost entirely of either obsolete or under-armed vessels, all crewed by inexperienced naval reservists.

Both tests used a flotilla of obsolete vessels from World War II with the intent of learning the effects of atomic weapons on naval fleets.

Ship dismantlers broke up many obsolete ocean-going vessels.

As a result she was already an obsolete vessel by 1905, inferior to newer cruisers.

For long time their vessels even if obsolete were maintained properly by its sailors.

The Commission has already put pressure on the Member States to limit the circulation of obsolete vessels, and we will continue to work on that.