stern-chasers

The strange sail doubtless feared that she was about to lose her hands, for instead of obeying the summons she trained her stern-chasers on the _Anglesea_ and for an hour and a half blazed away at her as fast as she could load.

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

The galleon returned the fire with two of her stern-chasers, and the Centurion getting her sprit sail-yard fore and aft, that if necessary she might be ready for boarding, the Spaniards in a bravado rigged their spritsail-yard fore and aft likewise.

Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced Richard Walter

It was all very silly, and we, of course, had nothing to say in return; so we watched them, with our muskets peeping over the bulwark and with the long gun and the stern-chasers cleared in case of trouble, and in undertones we kept up an exchange of comments.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

This heroic stripling had volunteered the command of a sort of raft, called a praam, carrying twenty-four guns, and a hundred and twenty men; on which, having pushed off from shore, in the fury of battle, he got under the stern of his lordship's ship, below the reach of the stern-chasers, and fired with considerable effect.

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

You, cook, clear away the stern-chasers and stand by to load them the minute the powder's up the companionway.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

On gaining that part of the ruins which commanded the most extensive outlook, they saw a lugger, with all her canvas crowded, standing across the bay, closely pursued by a sloop of war that kept firing upon the chase from her bows, which the lugger returned with her stern-chasers.

Chapter IX 1917

It was in a corner of the main gun battery alongside one of the big “stern-chasers.”

From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910

"President" responded with her stern-chasers, but her shot had no effect.

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

A second shot from one of the guns of the first division broke off the muzzle of one of the "Belvidera's" stern-chasers; and a third shot, fired by Commodore Rodgers, crashed into the stern of the chase, killing two men, and wounding several others.

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

"Belvidera," thirty-six, the sailors were busily engaged in shifting long eighteens and carronades to the stern, making a battery of stern-chasers mounting four guns.

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