Sentence examples for a fire ship from inspiring English sources

The militia also improvised a small flotilla of ships, which even included a fire ship.

The acting commander after Creutz's sudden demise, Admiral Claes Uggla, was surrounded and his flagship Svärdet battered in a drawn-out artillery duel, then set ablaze by a fire ship.

The method used is uncertain, although it involved a fire-ship.

The Yaya‑as‑machine stuff has always been a nod more to his basic physical strength, not to mention a certain playing style, those moments where Touré moves upfield and clanks into engine‑of‑war mode, ball trapped beneath his thundering pistons, hurtling at some retreating defence like an English fire ship scattering the Armada at Calais.

Mr. Joseph received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1959, and subsequently served as an ensign aboard the minesweeper USS Exultant, where he received a letter of commendation for devotion to duty for fighting a fire aboard ship.

Mr. Carey tidily lays out the whole picnic: Golding's youth; his education; his years in the Royal Navy (he commanded a rocket-firing ship off the coast of Normandy on D-Day); his struggle to write his first books while teaching; his slow path toward success; and ultimately his Nobel Prize, awarded in 1983, which brought Golding the kind of esteem that he felt had long eluded him.

In response, a flotilla of "fire ships"—flaming vessels was sent out one night from the port of Constantinople to destroy the Venetian ships.

Now, let's build some shelters, light a fire so ships can see us, and scout out the island".

A combination of miscalculation, misfortune, and an attack of English fire ships on 29 July off Gravelines which dispersed the Spanish ships to the northeast defeated the Armada.

84 barges were damaged at Dunkirk. 26 September: Operation Lucid, a plan to send fire ships into the harbours at Calais and Bolougne to destroy invasion barges, was abandoned when one of the old tankers that were to be used had engine failure.

Subsequently salvaged and modernized at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Nevada served as a convoy escort in the Atlantic and as a fire-support ship in four amphibious assaults: the Normandy Landings and the invasions of Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.