In this task, you are given a sentence or phrase in Xhosa. You must translate it to English in a way that is equivalent in terms of meaning and grammatically correct.

Oku kunci phisa ukucaca kwesiphele somqudi phezu kwamangi.
This reduced the boom end's clearance above the water.

Ummandla wokonakalisa
Damage radius

Ekuqaleni ngo1878, urhulumente wamaBrithishi wayethenge inqanawa yakhe enemasti nesikhuselo senkanunu iNeptune kunye nenqanawa enebhethri esembindini iSuperb.
Earlier, in 1878, the British Government had purchased his masted turret-ship Neptune as well as his central-battery ship Superb.