About that, then the first of the craft, a tartane, would be coming in through the entrance.

Now the first tartane had sailed through the entrance, followed by the second and then the third.

Anyway, they would have seen the tartane go up to the frigate.

Or, more likely, the tartane usually hugged the coast.

The first tartane swung round head to wind and crashed alongside the quay.

The young lieutenant opened the mahogany box as the first of the tartane's swivels fired.

Why a tartane, as a matter of interest?'

But theMagpie would catch the tartane long before theCalypso could get near.

Before he was taken back to the tartane Ramage sent for him and gave him his official orders.

Then a second and third tartane and then three galleys.

I'd have thought that a tartane rated a midshipman's command, not a lieutenant's!'

ThePassePartout was close alongside,racing along as only a tartane or a xebec could in this breeze.

Cormorant captured one tartane, drove another ashore, and captured a settee carrying oil.

'So we want the tartane, then, and Martin can command it with Orsini as mate.'

Hardly, because there was no way a little tartane in open water in bright sunshine could trap a heavily armed privateer schooner.

Within two or three minutes the tartane was heeling as she sliced through the waves, lively as a young pony let loose in a meadow.

As he watched closely through his telescope Ramage could see men securing the first tartane alongside, throwing ropes over the stone bollards.

A Tartane or tartan was a small ship used both as a fishing ship and for coastal trading in the Mediterranean.

With little vegetation and few shade trees, the beach is perfect for anyone wanting lots of sun and swimming in the quiet cove of Tartane.

A French frigate with a tartane in company is just what another French frigate would expect to see.'

Clearly no Algerine pirates came far enough north to persuade this tartane's master that his swivels needed anything more than canvas covers by way of maintenance.

A tartane had a single mast on which was rigged a large lateen sail, and with a bowsprit and fore-sail.

Albanaise was a tartane built for the purpose of transporting lumber for shipbuilding from Albania and Italy.

'She's a tartane, sir, thePassePartout.

Scared of the killer in their wake, they had set every stitch of canvas; and Ramage used the tartane's master's telescope to satisfy his curiosity.