In this boat he remained under water for more than four hours, and having been required to blow up a small vessel had no difficulty in getting under her and in blowing her to pieces with his torpedo.
On one occasion a small vessel, tender to his majesty's frigate Tyne, commanded by Lieutenant Hobson, with a crew of 20 men, was surprised and captured by a powerful piratical craft.
From their colony at Java they sent out a small vessel, the Duyfhen, or Dove, which sailed into the Gulf of Carpentaria, and passed half-way down along its eastern side.
A small vessel, the Endeavour, was chosen; astronomers with their instruments embarked, and the whole placed under the charge of James Cook, a sailor whose admirable character fully merited this distinction.
Here Low quarrelled with his captain, tried to shoot him, and then went off in an open boat with twelve other men, and the very next day they took a small vessel, in which they began their "war against all the world.
In August, 1723, joined with John Phillips in stealing a small vessel, which they called the Revenge, and went "on the account.
In May, 1699, Kidd suddenly appeared in a small vessel at New York, with rich booty.
Ferdinand Perez with only 13 men in a small vessel took a galley of the enemy.
Let him and his want for nothing; and send to me for any thing Brixham cannot furnish; I will send it to you by a small vessel.
But they decided, since they had a small vessel in which they could embark, to go to Monhegan, an island near the mouth of the Kennebec River, where many English ships came annually to fish.
Captain Church obtained a small vessel in Newport Harbor, and sailed for the point.
A few days after his departure, a man by the name of John Gallop was in a small vessel of about twenty tons, on his passage from Connecticut to Massachusetts Bay.
She proposed, however, that Captain Church should go to Rhode Island, obtain a small vessel, and then take her embassadors around Cape Cod to Plymouth.
Their first misfortune was the loss of the brigantine; but Ayllon immediately set to work to replace it, and built a small vessel such as was called a gavarra,—the first instance of ship-building on our coast.
Descending the rivers Coca and Napo, Gonzalo intrusted the command of a small vessel to Francisco de Orellana to go on in advance and seek for supplies.
Velasquez probably contributed a small vessel to the two vessels which were fitted out by the others.
Defn: Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.
The latter found means to join his supporters by a small vessel, in which he quitted the French coast; and eluding the vigilance of the English cruisers, he landed on the Isle of Skye, opposite to Lochaber, in the county of Inverness.
On the 10th our pinnace came up with a small vessel, the people on board of which said they were bound for the Dutch factory of Macasser on the S.
Fortunately a small vessel belonging to the bishop of St Thomas, taken by the Dutch at Praya, arrived in the bay, to which de Weert removed all the maize.
In the evening of the 30th July we anchored under Dungeness, and that same night some of the supercargoes and passengers, among whom I was one, hired a small vessel to carry us to Dover, where we arrived the next morning early.
On their arrival upon its coast, they were spoken with by a small vessel, in which were two white men and several blacks.
A sort of small vessel or galley-boat of the Hebrides; it is fitted with four to eight long oars, but is seldom furnished with sails.
A sort of small vessel known as a pilot-boat, having a deck composed almost entirely of hatches.
The last bound that I gave, pitched me into the rigging of a small vessel on her beam ends, and I hardly had time to fetch my breath before she turned over.
The last bound that I gave, pitched me into the rigging of a small vessel on her beam-ends, and I hardly had time to fetch my breath before she turned over.
Shortly afterwards he took a small vessel belonging to Moorish owners, the master being an Englishman, whom he forced into his service as pilot.
They then ran away with the boat, and only next day took a small vessel, on which they hoisted the black flag.
Brasiliano, following them, was chosen their leader, who, having fitted out a small vessel, they made him captain.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small vessel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
