gun-brigs

Liberte herself — for gun-brigs in those days were very small craft — and for that very reason more dangerous.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Of the squadron of gun-brigs, only one could get into action; the rest were prevented, by baffling currents, from weathering the eastern end of the shoal; and only two of the bomb-vessels could reach their station on the Middle Ground, and open their mortars on the arsenal, firing over both fleets.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Captain Rose, who volunteered his services to direct the gun-brigs, did every thing that was possible to get them forward, but the current was too strong for them to be of service during the action; but not the less merit was due to Captain Rose, and -- I believe -- all the officers and crews of the gun-vessels, for their exertions.

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

Beachy-Head: together with the entire flotilla of gun-brigs, fire-ships, bomb-ketches, and vessels of every other description; and all the sea-fencibles embodied within the same district, with all the boats, vessels, and other floating defences, on board of which they might be required to act.

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

He was fortunate enough to find a second in the Lieutenant-commander of one of the King's gun-brigs, which was stationed on the coast to put down smuggling.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Etaples, 954 transports and 1339 armed vessels -- gun-brigs, schooners, luggers, schuyts and prames; and all these light vessels lay snug in their harbours, protected by shoals and sandbanks which our heavier ships of war, by reason of their draught, could not approach.

The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The schooners and other small craft were easily taken outside; but, when it came to the turn of the two gun-brigs, "Lawrence" and

The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

At this period Denmark, having lost all her larger ships of war, was confining herself purely to gun-brigs.

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

These little brigs were slow, not very seaworthy, and overcrowded with men and guns; they all fell into the enemy's hands without doing any good whatever, with the single exception of the _Enterprise_, which escaped capture by sheer good luck, and in her only battle happened to be pitted against one of the corresponding and equally bad class of British gun-brigs.

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

Why, it must surely be one of the gun-brigs, judging from her spread of canvas and her lofty spars.

The Voyage of the Aurora Harry Collingwood 1886