mosquito fleet

There were many of them, however, and they came to be known as the "mosquito fleet."

1912 was a bad year for wrecks among the mosquito fleet.

It is one of only two surviving members of the American "mosquito fleet."

"I did ask you to count the mosquito fleet.

Wise contemptuously referred to the boats as the "mosquito fleet".

The remainder of the Mosquito Fleet suffered only minimal damage.

No further changes of status affected the Mosquito Fleet.

These were called the "jeffs" or mosquito fleet.

One meaning of mosquito is 'light and quick,' as a mosquito fleet .

Hollin's mosquito fleet proceeded with a ruthless determination characteristic of its leader.

The Richmond grounded broadside to the bar in the center of the river mouth, and opened fire on the mosquito fleet.

It is one of few mosquito fleet era ferries operating on Puget Sound today.

Hollins was unmoved, since now his mosquito fleet seemed to have some chance against the much bigger vessels of the Union blockade.

It was originally established as a summer community and was a stop for Mosquito Fleet ferries until the 1950s.

A gun-boat of the Mosquito fleet came out to greet us and to inform us that peace negotiations had begun.

The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet".

Mosquito Fleet, several groups of ships in US naval and maritime history

These projects, and others authorized by Mallory tied up most of the resources useful to construction of more vessels for the mosquito fleet.

She and Beaufort were the only vessels in the Mosquito Fleet to escape either capture or destruction.

Not having heard about the mosquito fleet, Francisco Peridor still had a question for The Shadow.

Hollins organized the haphazard collection of six armed riverboats and christened it the "mosquito fleet".

Perry assembled the Mosquito Fleet and captured Tuxpan in April, 1847.

Part of the American's Mosquito Fleet Campaign.

In the early 1900's, a "mosquito fleet" ferried passengers from village to village throughout the San Juans.

Manned by an experienced crew of 260 well trained sailors, she was a behemoth compared to any vessel of the mosquito fleet.