- [citation needed]
Shorter versions of
pikes called boarding pikes were also used on warships—typically to
repel boarding parties, up to the late 19th century...
- If not in
closed quarters,
defenders sometimes resorted to the
naval boarding pike,
trying to kill or
wound boarders while keeping them at a distance,...
-
leading staff by
which troops were directed. The half-
pike,
sometimes known as a
boarding pike, was also used as a
weapon on
board ships until the late...
- He was a
large and
formidable man in
Muslim garb, and
armed with a
boarding pike he
thrust his
weapon at Decatur's chest.
Armed with a cutl**** Decatur...
- the
second wave were
armed with more
defensive weapons such as the
boarding pike. The cutl**** may have had its
origins in the hanger, a
short curved...
- days of
cannonading ensued,
along with
boarding and hand-to-hand
fighting with cutl****es, pistols, and
boarding pikes. No
matter how
furious and
bloody the...
- Bulger, one of Shannon's Irishmen,
charged into the
Americans wielding a
boarding pike and
shouting Gaelic curses – "And then did I not spit them, beJaysus...
- blue
short jacket and trousers, and
weapons including a cutl**** and
boarding pike. The
company was
headquartered at a gun-house near the
Providence naval...
- boats, and
particularly claimed responsibility for
removing wooden boarding pikes from navy ships. The Navy did not have
responsibility for manufacture...
-
standoff weapons such as
firearms or
pikes. To
overcome the
boarding net,
boarding parties could be
equipped with
boarding axes –
lightweight hand axes designed...
