To draw off and divide this one of the corvettes and two or three of the gunboats took daily guard duty at the head of the line, from 9 A.
D'Urville did not hesitate to navigate his corvettes through the middle of the band of enormous icebergs which seemed to guard the Pole and forbid his approach to it.
I also contracted with a Liverpool ship-builder (Laird) for two iron-clads and four steam corvettes for twelve million francs.
I sold in 1884, to the Prussian government, an iron-clad and two steamcorvettes for seven million five hundred thousand francs, and received five per cent, commission.
Another class of ship-sloops or corvettes were fitted out for sea while Sir Joseph Yorke was First Lord of the Admiralty, having a flush-deck, and carrying 18 32-pounder carronades and two long nines.
The corvettes were threading their way through the mass of slower freighters, to be in at the kill.
Behind her, the corvettes darted to the oil slick that now spread over Sergeant Hale’s first target, and dropped two more charges for good measure.
Then came the corvettes O'Higgins and Chacabuco; and, lastly, the sloop Esmeralda.
On weighing anchor from Bahrein the two corvettes were joined by the vessel that had Midhat Pasha on board, and the little flotilla sailed together to Koweit.
Before the opening of the Suez Canal, Turkey only possessed the two corvettes the Boursa, and the Ismir, neither of which was in a sea‐going condition.
They decided to let the convoy come across with but two Corvettes to protect her until close off shore, instead of sending out naval ships to a rendezvous far at sea.
Until the rendezvous point is reached, only two Corvettes are guarding that convoy.
And that there're only two Corvettes leading the merchant ships.
These corvettescarried sails with a view to saving coal, by utilizing the well-defined wind zones of the ocean when fair for their course.
The corvettes for the most part were also employed as cruisers, being at once less effective in battery, for river work, and swifter.
In addition, two or three corvettes belonging formerly to the Yangtze squadron had disappeared.
Those are the corvettes missing from the Yangtze Squadron," the Commander explained, excitedly for him, and his enthusiasm made one feel quite cheerful and frightfully excited too.
A couple of the Yangtze corvettes have also mysteriously vanished.
Tis true I can tell of blockades evaded andcorvettes slipped, of customs officers bedevilled, of tricks on slow-tacking junks, and of dancing with creoles under the moon.
I hurried back with all the vessels I could collect to Tchamchira, three ironclad corvettes and two wooden paddle-wheel transports.
Up went the glorious flag of Old England, the Saint George's ensign, just as we arrived abreast of the three rearmost ships, the two corvettes and the smallest of the frigates.
The corvettes soon entered a huge basin, formed by the coast and the ice-islands which had just been passed.
On the 26th January two corvettes arrived at Conception.
On the 24th the two corvettes crossed a series of floating islets, and entered a plain where the ice was melting.
On the 17th February the two corvettes once more cast anchor off Hobart's Town, and on the 25th set sail again for New Zealand, where they completed the hydrographical surveys of the Uranie.
The corvettes had traversed twelve or fifteen miles for nothing, when an officer, perched in the shrouds, sighted a passage in the E.
They embarked in the corvettes Boussole and the Astrolabe, neither of which were again heard of.
On the 6th of April he captured the Tapageuse, and on the 7th he chased three other corvettes till they were driven on shore by their crews and wrecked.
They discharged the sailors, dismantled the fleet, and even sold some of the frigates and corvettes by public auction.
The corvettes took shelter under the batteries, where they were driven on shore and cannonaded by the Flora and Arethusa, until their masts fell, and great part of their crews escaped to the land.
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