A fire ship or fireship is a large wooden vessel set on fire to be used against enemy ships during a ramming attack or similar maneuver. Fireships were...
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PST, a fire started in a former warehouse that had been unlawfully converted into an artist collective with living spaces (named the Ghost Ship) in Oakland...
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Look up fire ship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A fire ship was a ship filled with combustibles, deliberately set on fire. Fire ship may also refer...
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Ship gun fire-control systems (GFCS) are analogue fire-control systems that were used aboard naval warships prior to modern electronic computerized systems...
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napalm. Byzantine sailors would toss grenades loaded with Greek fire onto enemy ships or spray it from tubes. Its ability to burn on water made it an...
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warships maneuvering to volley fire with the cannons along their broadsides. In conflicts where opposing ships were both able to fire from their broadsides, the...
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The Fire Ship (German: Das Feuerschiff) is a 1922 German silent drama film directed by Richard Löwenbein and starring Camilla von Hollay, Eduard von Winterstein...
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SpaceX Starship (spacecraft) (redirect from Starship Ship 22)
Ship 24 was destacked again for static fire tests. On December 15, 2022, Ship 24 conducted a single engine static test fire. On January 9, 2023, Ship...
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Warship (redirect from Combatant ship)
A warship or combatant ship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare. Usually they belong to the navy branch of the armed forces...
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A ship is a large vessel that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions...
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companies Felucca A traditional Arab type of sailing vessel Fire ship A vessel of any sort, set on fire and sent forth to cause consternation and destruction...
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transportation fires where a ship or other transportation has caught on fire. 1800 – British warship HMS Queen Charlotte — 673 deaths 1807 – The slave ship Ann —...
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human gunner firing a weapon, but attempts to do so faster and more accurately. The original fire-control systems were developed for ships. The early history...
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Sloop-of-war (redirect from Ship sloop)
cutters. In technical terms, even the more specialised bomb vessels and fire ships were classed by the Royal Navy as sloops-of-war, and in practice these...
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Clipper (redirect from Clipper ship)
dock at Greenwich, United Kingdom. Damaged by fire on 21 May 2007 while undergoing conservation, the ship was permanently elevated 3.0 m above the dry...
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Cutty Sark (redirect from Cutty Sark (ship))
other significant remnant of this construction method. The ship has been damaged by fire twice in recent years, first on 21 May 2007 while undergoing...
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Siege tower Caravel Carrack Cog Fire ship Galley Junk Djong (ship) Longship Lou chuan (tower ship) Qiao chuan Turtle ship Camels in warfare Dogs in warfare...
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MS Scandinavian Star (category Ship fires)
in France in 1971. The ship was set on fire on 7 April 1990, killing 159 people. The official investigation determined the fire had been caused by a convicted...
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Bulkhead (partition) (redirect from Bulkhead (ship))
wall within the hull of a ship, within the fuselage of an airplane, or a car. Other kinds of partition elements within a ship are decks and deckheads....
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circumnavigation of the globe refer to St. Elmo's fire (calling it the body of St. Anselm) being seen around the fleet's ships multiple times off the coast of South...
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First-rate (redirect from 1st rate ship of the line)
was the designation for the largest ships of the line. Originating in the Jacobean era with the designation of Ships Royal capable of carrying at least...
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TSMS Lakonia (redirect from Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (ship))
Oldenbarnevelt. In 1962 she became the Greek Line cruise ship TSMS Lakonia. On 22 December 1963 she caught fire at sea and on 29 December she sank. 128 people were...
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Treanore, later returned to the ship as her commander and retired an admiral. The incident was the second of three serious fires to strike American carriers...
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Bomb vessel (redirect from Bomb ship)
A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannons (long guns or carronades)...
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Corvette (redirect from Corvette (ship))
navies to "lieutenant commander", derives from the name of this type of ship. The rank is the most junior of three "captain" ranks in several European...
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An anti-ship missile (AShM or ASM) is a guided missile that is designed for use against ships and large boats. Most anti-ship missiles are of the sea-skimming...
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USS Intrepid (1798) (category Barbary Wars American ships)
his retreat in Intrepid, unless it then seemed feasible to use her as a fire ship against other shipping in the harbor. In the latter case, he was to escape...
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Galleon (redirect from Galleon (ship))
Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships developed in Portugal and Spain and first used as armed cargo carriers by Europeans from the 16th to 18th...
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SS Noronic (redirect from SS Noronic fire)
SS Noronic was a Canadian passenger ship that was destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour in September 1949 with the loss of at least 118 lives.: 152 : 179 ...
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German battleship Bismarck (redirect from Bismarck (ship))
everyone in the ship's command centre, save Captain John Leach, the ship's commanding officer, and one other. The two German ships continued to fire upon Prince...
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