Soon after this, three French vessels, manned with Buccaneers, took an English guarda costa of forty guns, killing eighteen men.
A Dutch frigate of forty guns refused to interrupt their progress, although offered a reward.
There were several vessels in the bay, besides a Dutchman of forty guns, the captain of which was offered a considerable reward to go in pursuit of Avery, but he declined.
He then pointed to a vessel of forty guns, and a hundred and fifty men; and though her strength was greatly superior to Roberts', yet he made towards her, taking the master of the captured vessel along with him.
One of our out-forts, called Succondee, has been attacked sometime since by a French frigate, of forty guns.
On the 3d August the St Francisco Zavier came into the harbour, a Portuguese man of war of forty guns and 300 men, bound from Lisbon for Macao in China, commanded by Mons.
The St. Estevan of forty guns, and three hundred and fifty men.
By their appearance he thought they consisted of two ships of seventy guns, two of fifty, and one of forty guns.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forty guns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
