bomb-ketch

• “The town of Monaco is commanded by every heighth in its neighbourhood; and might be laid in ashes by a bomb-ketch in four hours by sea.”

  Travels through France and Italy

• “The trip north was made by Porter and his ward in the bomb-ketch”

  Admiral Farragut

• “On the eighth several frigates and a bomb-ketch took their stations before the camp of the Chevalier de Lévis, who, with his division of”

  Montcalm and Wolfe

• “Several days passed in landing artillery and stores, cannonading from the fort and shelling from the English bomb-ketch, when on the twenty-ninth, Ensign Perelle, with a drummer and a flag of truce, came to Nicholson's tent, bringing a letter from Subercase, who begged him to receive into his camp and under his protection certain ladies of the fort who were distressed by the bursting of the English shells.”

  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America

• “At 6 P.M. a frigate and the bomb-ketch approached Paso Alto, and the latter opened fire upon the fort and the heights behind it.”

  To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I

• “She replied with sundry broadsides, whilst the bomb-ketch, which had got into position, discharged some ten shells, and yet was so maltreated, one man being killed and another wounded, that she was either crippled or hoisted on board by the enemy.”

  To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I

• “She was built in 1759 for a bomb-ketch, and was in dock in the Thames a few days since, sound and likely to endure for many years yet: she is mostly now engaged in the Honduras and African timber trades, which is in itself a proof of her great strength.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

• “Admiral Holbourne, who had just arrived at that port with eleven ships of the line, a fire-ship, bomb-ketch, and fleet of transports, having on board six thousand men.”

  Life of George Washington — Volume 01

• “_Terpsichore_ (32), Captain Richard Bowen; also the _Fox_ (cutter), Lieut. Commander John Gibson, and a mortar-boat or a bomb-ketch, probably a ship's launch with a shell-gun.] of”

  To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I

• “REDMAN, John, — was appointed ailing comitiandef of the Kitchen bomb-ketch either in the lader end of the year 1692) or early in the fallowing Ipring.”

  Internet Archive: Biographia navalis; or, Impartial memoirs of the lives and characters of officers of the navy of Great Britain, from the year 1660 to the present time; drawn from the most authentic sources, and disposed in a chronological arrangement

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