bomb vessel
bomb ship

This was where they'd acquired the means to make their bomb vessel.

Our reports indicate that they examine every square foot inside a bombed vessel.

Its survival is a tribute to the strength of bomb vessels in Arctic service.

At some point thereafter, Cruelle was converted to a bomb vessel.

He was especially famous for his Bomb vessels.

Two bomb vessels were in the extreme east.

Several houses had been destroyed for the damage and loss of a few of the bomb vessels.

The bomb vessels again take an important role, and so do amphibious operations under the protection of the squadron.

United Kingdom human casualties are unknown, one bomb vessel and several small boats were damaged though.

This innovation was quickly taken up, necessitating a new form of naval ship, the bomb vessel.

In late 1792 she served as a powder magazine for four small frigates converted into bomb vessels.

Early bomb vessels were rigged as ketches with two masts.

The bomb vessels' shells and carcasses set the town on fire on 23 July.

She had been a bomb vessel but had left her mortar at Toulon.

The following day, the bomb vessels Meteor and Hydra arrived.

They were also fired from bomb vessels.

Honyman wanted to have his bomb vessels engage them, but winds and tide were unfavorable.

The cessation of firing left the way open for the British bomb vessels to approach Copenhagen.

HMS Volcano was to have been an 8-gun bomb vessel.

Bomb vessels were traditionally named after volcanoes, or given other names suggestive of explosive qualities.

Bomb vessels were specialized ships designed for bombarding (hence the name) fixed positions on land.

Hotham sailed with "five men of war, a bomb vessel, some frigates, and a large convoy."

On the evening of 27 August the bomb vessels started bombarding Fort Washington.

Bomb vessels would sit outside the British line and bombard the Danes by firing over it.

The other was the Vesuvius-class bomb vessel Terror.

And eight minutes until they must have their bomb ship in place.

But they had to at least try to stop that bomb ship.

Even a shillnulcsis might be suspicious of his presence on the bomb ship.

And then," he told her, "the two of them sort of projected themselves onto the bomb ship.

Mr. Scott, how close can we safely follow that bomb ship?

The bomb ships fired continuously for fifty two hours, starting large fires.

Seven remained with the bomb ship bearing down on Tuvok and the shuttle.

Vessels of other types which were later converted to bomb ships generally retained their original names.

The moon was full and therefore the Germans could bomb ships and beaches by night.

In the morning of 27, the two bomb ships were towed behind the frigates, close to the reef.

He attacked six Junkers Ju-88s that were bombing ships and shot one down.

The landings took place without incident, with fire from the fort answered by one of the fleet's bomb ships at long range.

On the screen the yacht drifted toward the Qavok warships and the bomb ship in their center.

The bomb ship was black, and the Xorm scientific ship was orange.

But if he were bombing ships in Heligoland Bight he'd have to take risks of the same order.

On the main screen the remaining six warships shifted position slightly, moving three up front and leaving three to flank their bomb ship.

A French force carried out a simultaneous raid of Gibraltar's harbour, burning the bomb ship.

Centauri watches through a scope as Jericho drops into the hatch and launches the bomb ship.

Fliegerkorps bombed ships off the beaches.

A "bomb ship" was also installed off the Old Mole, carrying a heavy mortar to provide additional flanking fire from the west.

Two warships were escorting the bomb ship past the yacht toward its appointed time of reckoning with the neutron star binary.

That fleet, made up of suicide flyers interfaced with flying bomb ships, had proven irresistible to the forces of civilization.

On Chichagov's orders, four sets of ships (each with a trailing bomb ship) were positioned east to west, broadsides to the Swedish force.

However, as naval warfare became more advanced, bomb ships were also accompanied by frigates to protect them from direct assault by faster, smaller vessels.

Fire from the fort and supporters outside it persisted, and the British bomb ships wrought havoc within the fort with their fire each night.