fireship

The five took fire and burned along with the fireship.

He pursued well into the night, destroying Resolution with a fireship.

The decision was made to use her as a fireship in an attempt to destroy one or both of the French vessels.

In the fireship's wake, he could see that two others were burning fiercely.

The Torbay did so under heavy fire and was attacked by a fireship.

"Had we the great fire cannons or were the fireship completed, they would not have dared."

It was definitely not a nuclear fireship that was approaching.

She was seeing to the dress- ings of a man who had been burned when the fireship came.

It continued intermittently until 19 November when a large fireship was sent into the harbour.

The French launched one fireship and the Spanish three, but also without any effect.

On board the fireship, one of the yardarms broke.

The Ottomans fired on the boat and lighted the fireship.

Delancey is bitter, but he does receive command of a fireship.

Just as the fireship entered the mole, the galleys opened fire.

The next novel in the series is The Fireship.

I would have boarded a fireship to get into action, and mildly suggested as much to my friend Pea.

That's a fireship, aimed at the shipping in the harbor."

In the battle she ran aground and was burnt by a Dutch fireship.

Fellowes opened musket fire on the fireship crew to cover his men.

As for building a replica of an ancient fireship... he shook his head.

Even His Mightiness builds but one fireship, when we need many.

However, a fireship set her stern on fire and the fire soon reached the powder rooms.

The Santa Teresa was set on fire by a fireship and burned with great loss of life.

Menander turned his eyes away from the fortress and studied the fireship which was starting to pull out ahead of him.

The third vessel seemed to be a fireship due to its swiftness and the fireworks it carried.