One of the carronades of the battery, a twenty-four pounder, had broken loose.
After a while the captain came on deck, and ordered all the carronades to be scaled.
Dodd put his helm down ere the smoke cleared, and got three carronades to bear, heavily laden with grape.
Three carronades gave way under the blows of the cannon; then, as if blind and not knowing what more to do, turned its back on the man, rolled from stern to bow, injured the stern and made a breach in the planking of the prow.
The two availablecarronades replied noisily, and jumped as usual; they sent one thirty-two pound shot clean through the schooner's deck and side; but that was literally all they did worth speaking of.
While they were coming, Dodd sent and ordered the gunner to load the carronades with shot, and secure and apron them.
Then the three carronades peppered him hotly; and he hurled an iron shower back with fatal effect.
The request was refused, and the ship in this action had forty thirty-two-pounder carronades and six long twelve-pounders.
At a later day, and during the cruise under Porter, this was changed to forty thirty-two-pound carronades and six long twelves.
She probably would, for the Essex could have got in three broadsides of her twenty thirty-two-pounder carronades before the enemy could effectively reply, a beginning which would have reversed the odds between the two ships.
With it, the cable having been cut, the head of the Essex was turned toward the enemy; and, fanned along by the other sails hanging loose from the yards, she slowly approached her foes till her carronades at last could reach.
Porter had begged to change his carronades for long guns when he joined the Essex.
Her battery in her early history was composed of twenty-six long twelve-pounders on the main deck, with sixteen thirty-two-pound carronades and two chase guns on the deck above.
Of these she mounted eight; four were carronades of the government pattern, and four were guns of a new form, cast after a model prepared by Hastings himself.
The carronades were now reloaded with shells, and the long guns with large grape, and the Karteria stood in to prevent the enemy from continuing his endeavours to extinguish the fire.
The order was now received from the captain to load the maindeck guns with double shot and the carronades with grape.
The big guns sent their balls, and the carronades their showers of grape, into the very midst of the Frenchmen.
They look like peaceful merchantmen, with four carronades and a long gun aboard!
He and certain other adventurers had purchased a vessel of some five hundred tons, which they proposed to convert into a pirate by cutting portholes for cannon, and running three or four carronades across her main deck.
Twice his ship had been set on fire by the hot shot of the Confiance; one by one his long guns were disabled by shot, and his carronades were either treated the same way or else rendered useless by excessive overcharging.
One thing is certain; long guns are more formidable than carronades of the same calibre.
But the British guns were almost exclusively carronades which, as already pointed out in the case of the Essex and in the battle off Plattsburg, are no match for long guns.
But for long; the pirate wore and fired his bow chasers at the now flying Agra, split one of the carronades in two, and killed a Lascar, and made a hole in the foresail.
One of the carronades of the battery, a twenty-four pound cannon, had become loose.
Three carronades were crushed by its onslaught; then, as though blind and besides itself it turned from the man, and rolled from stern to stem, splintering the latter, and causing a breach in the walls of the prow.
True, a single discharge of his carronades would blow the boats to pieces; but he could not in a moment warp his ship out through the narrow passage.
Let me know when those carronades are ready, and be careful so to depress their muzzles that none of the charge will reach the poop.
Happily, however, the breeze freshened, and we kept up so continuous a fire from our long gun and carronades that they were afraid of approaching nearer.
We had on board four carronades and a long gun, as where we were going it was necessary to have the means of defence, but they were stowed below during the first part of the voyage.
The carronadeson her flush decks were replying valiantly to the twelve-pounders of the brig.
The carronades with which she was armed were no match for the long guns of her adversaries.
In an instant the ports of the sham merchantman were knocked out; and, with a warlike thunder, the heavy carronades hurled their ponderous missiles against the side of the assailant.
The carronades and howitzers were loaded with grape; and the officers and men felt that only bravery on their part was essential to the defeat of any force that Great Britain could send against the ship.
The carronades against which Porter had protested when his ship was armed were utterly useless against an enemy who used such cautious tactics.
Cold shot and kentledge were dashed upon the boats, in the hopes of sinking them; while the carronades poured a destructive fire upon such boats as could be reached by their shot.
We lowered down all the quarter-boats, and towed round the brig's broadside to her, and then gave her half a dozen carronades of round and grape.
Pistols were protruded and fired in our faces, while occasionally her carronades went off, stunning us with their deafening noise, and rocking the boats in the disturbed water, if they had no other effect.
They got their carronades ready, and laboured to infuse a little order and system into the excitable mob around them.
Though one of the carronades burst, the others did good execution, and when shot and scrap-iron failed, the artillerymen used pebbles.
The Decatur had six twelve-pound carronades and one eighteen-pounder, and mustered 103 men.
Torode came across himself with four big boat-loads of rascals, with carronadesin their boats, too, and they have turned the Island upside down in search of you.
Depress your carronades and discharge them," ordered a black-bearded young man in her, in excellent English, as they hooked on.
She was commanded on this occasion by Commander Josias Rogers, an officer of great courage and resource, and was armed with sixteen 9-pounder carronades and two 6-pounders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carronades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
