And he is theFireship those older hands make use of for blowing Walpole and Company out of their anchorage.
Our Fritz was only in danger of losing his life; but what is that, to losing your sanity, personal identity almost, and becoming Parliamentary Fireship to his Majesty's Opposition?
The rockets, on which he had chiefly relied, had proved worthless, and, one fireship having been wasted, he did not care to risk the loss of the other.
On the night of the 4th, Lord Cochrane amused himself, while a fireship was being prepared, by causing a burning tar-barrel to be drifted with the tide towards the enemy's shipping.
I proposed to direct a fireship and three other vessels upon the frigate, and, when near the enemy, to set fire to certain combustibles which should throw out a great flame.
On the following evening a fireship was despatched; but this also was a failure.
In 1873 one Captain Lupuis of the Austrian navy experimented with a small fireship which he directed along the surface of the sea by means of ropes and guiding lines.
This fireship was to be loaded with explosives which should ignite immediately on coming into collision with the vessel aimed at.
In order to gain time he entered into negotiations with the Spanish admiral, Don Alonso del Campo y Espinosa, while the privateers carefully made ready a fireship disguised as a man-of-war.
The fireship fell foul of the "Almirante," a vessel of forty guns, grappled with her and set her in flames.
Then, of their frigates, we burnt two, and also a fireship other than the merchantman loaded with snuff.
The lilies were hauled down, in their place floated the banner of England; the fireship had vanished into the elements, the great boom lay in pieces on the water like some long, severed snake.
Then one of their fireships approached our flagship; but our artillery checked this rash boldness, hurling at the fireship terrible volleys on the starboard quarter until it came under the stern-gallery of our flagship.
Fitzroy, to request the fireship to remove from her station; a fire of musketry ensued from the fireship into the boat, killing the officer and several men.
Another fireship came close to the Philomel which soon sunk her, and in the very act of going down she exploded.
Before this, however, a Turkish fireship approached us, having seemingly no one on board.
Another feature in the table is the development of the fireshipand the yacht[294].
Their Fireshipand they, frightening the world, have sailed away; its flames and its thunders quite away, into the Deep of Time.
The Fireship is old France, the old French Form of Life; her creed a Generation of men.
In the absence of a sufficient volume of experience it would be idle to go further, particularly as torpedo attack, like fireship attack, depends for success more than any other on the spirit and skill of officers and men.
A fireship that departs to-day will deliver you this letter, and your lordship may perhaps think it worth while to send a vessel here with orders for my further guidance.
But such are the Greeks; they have no foresight, and until they see the enemy they will make no preparations, nor will they, unless the money is in their hands, expend a dollar to prepare a single fireship to defend their country.
When a fireship was to be used, a body of picked men steered her down on the enemy, and when close enough set her alight, and escaped in a boat which was towed astern.
The firstfireship hung on the obstruction, the weight of a second snapped the chain, and then the Dutch poured through.
He refitted the fireship at sea, and then went on, reaching Bougie on the 2nd of May.
An accidental explosion in the ship herself, the wads from the guns on the cobridge heads, or, worst of all, the flames of a fireship alongside, would cause all the canvas and rigging to burn up like a bonfire.
Under the cover they afforded, a detachment of boats was to cut the boom, and the fireship was to be steered through the opening.
In these conditions no direct attack by the heavy ships was possible, but Spragge was in hopes that something might be done with a fireship after dark.
The Dutch steered fireship after fireship down upon him, but they were one after the other sunk by his guns.
The combustibles having been arranged and the slow matches laid, the fireship left the squadron, accompanied by armed boats under the command of Nugent, the first lieutenant of the flagship.
His second small fireship was consumed through the folly of a drunken gunner, who fired off his pistol in some idle extravagance, and so set her in flames.
He limped into his cabin, and was under the hands of the surgeon, who was cutting away some loose skin and one of his toes, when he heard the cry that a fireship had at last grappled the =Royal James=.
Ever since a weapon of this kind had been used against them at the siege of Antwerp, the Spaniards had regarded the fireship with considerable fear.
In a few minutes the fireship ran into the man-of-war, "and grappled to her sides" with kedges thrown into her shrouds.
One of the men undertook to rig a fireship to destroy the Spanish admiral's flagship.
The fireship went in advance, with orders to fall foul of the Spanish Admiral, a ship of forty guns.
No crew got drunk, on the return to port after a successful trip, until thanks had been declared for the dew of heaven they had gathered.
As for Captain Bartholomew Sharp, in the ship the Trinity, he continued to sail the South Seas with the seventy pirates left to him.
It is noteworthy, however, that the French Admiral's flagship was only saved from grappling by a Turkish fireship through the speedy assistance given by the British brig "Rose" and some boats of the Russian fleet.
Duke" fireship into the Port of St. Tropez in Provence, on June 14th, and burning five Royal Spanish galleys which had fired upon the blockading fleet.
A fireshipwas then dispatched to bear down on the Dutch Admiral, and missed very little of setting him on fire.
The continued insistence on fireship tactics in this and Articles XX.
A fireship ordered to proceed on service is to keep a little ahead and to windward of the ship that is to escort her, to be the more ready to bear down on the vessel she is to board, and to board if possible in the fore shrouds.
When a fireship of the enemy therefore attempts to board a ship of the line, they are to endeavour to cut off the boats that attend her, and even to board her, if necessary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fireship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
