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The "Mortar" bomb-vessel had all her company lost.— John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
"Mr. Chalmers, late master of the _Terror_, bomb-vessel, employed in the attack on Stonington, has been captured in a British barge and sent to— The Defence of Stonington (Connecticut) Against a British Squadron, August 9th to 12th, 1814
These suggestions so far weighed with the English Admiralty as to lead to the equipment of two small vessels, the bomb-vessel _Hecla_ and the brigantine _Griper_, which left the Thames on the 5th May, 1819, under command of Lieutenant William Parry, whose opinion as to the existence of the north-west passage had not coincided with that of his chief.— Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
The "Essex" soon came near enough to the squadron to ascertain that it was a fleet of British merchantmen and transports convoyed by a frigate and bomb-vessel.— The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
Captains Lane of the thirty-two-gun frigate _Astrea_ and Ryves of the bomb-vessel _Bulldog_, were landed to co-operate with the troops.— By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson
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