Sentence examples for a ship captured from inspiring English sources

Take the example of a sequence of a fairly slowly moving object (such as a ship) captured using a high-frame-rate camera.

From a ship captured off Masulipatam, Linois learned of the presence of the East Indiamen at Vizagapatam and determined to attack, unaware that British Rear-Admiral Peter Rainier had replaced the small frigate HMS Wilhelmina with the larger Centurion as the convoy's escort.

This one started off the coast of Florida in 1731 when a Spanish ship captured a British merchant vessel commanded by Robert Jenkins.

German metallurgist Andreas Libavius received a quantity of what he called "calay" of Malabar from a cargo ship captured from the Portuguese in 1596.

He was officer on a slave ship captured by pirates and decided that if he couldn't beat them he'd join them.

In August 1794, a French ship captured in St. Domingo arrived in Halifax.

Willaumez had planned to resupply his squadron at the Cape itself before searching for the China Fleet, but the crew of a merchant ship captured in the South Atlantic informed him that the Dutch governors had surrendered on 10 January 1806 to an expeditionary force under General Sir David Baird and Commodore Popham after five days of fighting.

In a further coincidence MacBride was appointed in January 1781 to command the 40-gun, a former French ship captured in 1780 by.

Pueblo, an American Navy ship captured by North Korea in 1968.

Later that day, the ship captured a barge out from under the guns of Fort Powell, a fortification guarding another entrance to Mobile Bay further north.

After two days of bombardment a landing party from the ship captured the fort.