Sentence examples for fire ship from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

One supply ship, the Inverness, was torched and set adrift toward the occupied vessels, causing a scramble as the British troops hurried to abandon them in the face of the arriving fire ship.

Examples from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms include Zhuge Liang pretending to use magic to call forth favourable winds (that he had in fact predicted by astronomical observation) for the fire ship attack, his strategy of "using straw boats to borrow arrows", and Guan Yu capturing and releasing Cao Cao at Huarong Trail.

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

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Fire ships were used on a number of occasions throughout the period.

He also proposed using fire ships from the sea, although they were never used.

During the night, these fire ships were propelled against the unguarded and unsuspecting Roman fleet.