Sentence examples for fire ships from inspiring English sources
In response, a flotilla of "fire ships"—flaming vessels was sent out one night from the port of Constantinople to destroy the Venetian ships.
The existence of a reservoir of trained sailors proved to be an inestimable advantage once the war of independence broke out, and Greek fire ships (combustibles-laden ships set afire and guided toward the enemy) became a formidable weapon against the cumbersome ships of the Ottoman fleet.
At midnight on August 7 8 July 28 299), the English launched eight fire ships before the wind and tide into the Spanish fleet, forcing the Spanish ships to cut or slip their cables (thus losing their anchors) and stand out to sea to avoid catching fire.
In the summer of 1667, when the Dutch were sending fire ships up the Medway, and John Milton was pondering whether he had been right to take a tenner for Paradise Lost, hopes were briefly raised when a French boy was given an infusion of sheep blood.
Here were two noble people - for I am convinced that Edward and Leonora had noble natures - here then were two noble natures, drifting down life, like fire ships afloat on a lagoon and causing miseries, heartaches, agony of the mind and death.
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The militia also improvised a small flotilla of ships, which even included 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.
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.
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