Warren, of twenty guns each; besides the Spence Sloop, Captain Laws, and the Wolf, Captain Dandridge.
He captured four Jamaica-men when he was three days out, one of which had an armament of twenty guns, but he was then blockaded in Charleston by an English force through the summer.
The report states that the naval force for the protection of the trade of the United States, shall consist of four ships of forty-four guns each, 18 and 9 pounders, and two of twenty guns each.
Captain Blith, who commanded a ship of twenty guns, then lay in the road.
The ships were paid off shortly after their return to England; and Nelson was then placed by his uncle with Captain Farmer, in the Seahorse, of twenty guns, then going out to the East Indies in the squadron under Sir Edward Hughes.
The Glasgow, a craft of twenty guns, having entered the bay and cast anchor, was found to be on fire, the steward having carelessly caused the conflagration while taking rum from the after hold.
Captain James Pigot, now Admiral of the White, was at that time coming home with the Dolphin of twenty guns.
With this excellent commander, in the Sea-Horse of twenty guns, did the adventurous and heroic youth sail to the East Indies.
This stranger proved to be the Solebay, British frigate of twenty guns.
Paul Jones next turned his attention to an effort to capture the British man-of-war Drake, a vessel of twenty guns--two guns stronger than his own ship.
These English frigates were the Serapis, a brand-new ship of forty-four guns, and the Countess of Scarborough, twenty guns.
The rest were sloops, brigs, and schooners carrying from ten to twenty guns apiece.
She had been out only a few days when she captured the "True Briton," a ship of twenty guns, and three West Indiamen that formed her convoy.
He boarded the Niagara, of twenty guns, and a breeze springing up behind his ships, which as yet had not been in action, he obtained the weather gage of the British, and made it necessary for them to wear round.
She represented in her general characteristics a modern vessel of twenty guns.
A brig of twenty guns, called the "Eagle," was subsequently laid down and launched in time for the action.
On one cruise she fought an engagement of an hour and a half with a British cutter of twenty guns; and so roughly did she handle the enemy, that he was glad to sheer off.
Barbary pirate of twenty guns, and was hard put to it to escape.
He had learned that the harbor was full of shipping, and defended only by a single armed vessel of twenty guns.
He returned to America in the ship Ariel of twenty guns, after an absence of nearly three years.
On his return, he fitted out the ship Mars, mounting upwards of twenty guns, in which he sailed on a cruise in the English Channel.
The American brig Argus, of twenty guns, commanded by Captain William Henry Allen, after taking Hon.
She was chased by the Alert, of twenty guns, and fired upon.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twenty guns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
