bow-chasers

Nettlebones, senior officer of the eastern division after my papa, although a very young man still, carries a swivel-gun and two bow-chasers.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Whether as a cargo ship that evaded British patrols, or as a privateer that snapped up stragglers from British convoys, the schooner had led a charmed life until, at the beginning of January, as the Thuella stole from the mouth of the Gironde in a dawn mist, a British frigate had come from the silvered north and its bow-chasers had thumped nine-pounder balls into the Thuella's transom.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

It didn't do more than tear it slightly, but that was enough - the thing parted with a rending sound, Kennedy swore, Boudancourt shrieked, and we scrambled aboard as the bow-chasers roared for the last time and the boats ground over the shingle and wallowed in the surf.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

Behind, the boat crews were hauling their bow-chasers ashore, manhandling them on to wheeled sledges to run them forward so that they could be brought to play against the fort.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

It was taken up from the manned stockades on the right bank, and the wooden forts behind - and then the fort guns and the praus 'bow-chasers belched smoke, and the air was thick with screaming shot, whining overhead, driving up jets of water from the misty surface or crashing home into the timbers of our craft.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

The blue-jackets yelled and stamped, and as the blue lights went up the cheering spread along our line, and on either side the praus drove forward, bow-chasers blazing away, musketeers firing from the platforms, the crews crowding forward to the bows.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

Sullivan was sprawled face down in the scuppers, and the after rail was a milling scene of men running every which way, while another shot from the brig's bow-chasers came whistling overhead to tear through the mainsail.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

Sullivan was sprawled face down in the scuppers, and the after rail was a milling scene of men running every which way, while another shot from the brig's bow-chasers came whistling overhead to tear through the mainsail.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

Now and then, a fruitless shot from his bow-chasers, reminded the fugitive that the foe was still on his scent.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

I was not the least solicitous, either to board or to be boarded: as the enemy appeared of immense bulk, and full of men, keeping up a prodigious fire of musketry; which, with the bow-chasers, she could, for a long time, only use.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison