- ship or
fireship is a
large wooden vessel set on fire to be used
against enemy ships during a
ramming attack or
similar maneuver.
Fireships were used...
- bitter, but he does
receive command of a
fireship. He
makes the most of this, by
researching the
history of
fireships. Fire was a very
serious danger aboard...
- "
Fireship" (alternatively
titled "The Fire Ship", "The
Fireship", or "Dark and
Rolling Eye") is a risqué
variation of the song "Roving Kind". The original...
- It was
followed by the
first convoy of 12
fireships on 10 April,
taking Cochrane's
total to 24
fireships and
explosion vessels to
expend in his attack...
-
Fireships served in the
Royal Navy over a
period of
several centuries. The
earliest fireships –
ships filled with
combustible and
flammable materials...
-
these fireships alight and cast them
downwind among the
closely anc****d
vessels of the Armada. The
Spanish feared that
these uncommonly large fireships were...
-
Fireships is the 19th
studio album by
English singer and
songwriter Peter Hammill.
Originally released in 1992, it was the
first release on Hammill's...
- the
Rhine commanded the
Allied fleet of more than 100
warships and 28
fireships,
taking control of the
centre himself, with Jean II d'Estrées commanding...
- In
Canadian ghostlore, the
Ghost Ship of
Northumberland Strait is a
ghost ship said to sail
ablaze within the
Northumberland Strait, the body of water...
- broadside, but then, when
attacked by a
Dutch fireship, she
withdrew up the Medway,
followed by the
English fireships and ketches. The
Dutch fired on the fort;...
