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...

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...

manoeuvering to volley fire with the cannons along their broadsides. In conflicts where opposing ships were both able to fire from their broadsides, the...

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...

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...

A warship or combatant ship is a ship that is used for naval warfare. Usually they belong to the navy branch of the armed forces of a nation, though they...

Ship gun fire-control systems (GFCS) are analogue fire-control systems that were used aboard naval warships prior to modern electronic computerized systems...

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...

the ships were destroyed by fire in 1944 during World War II. The larger ship was 73 m (240 ft) in length, with a beam of 24 m (79 ft). The other ship was...

placed lower in the ships, and fire from gunports, to avoid ships becoming unstable. In Northern Europe the technique of building ships with clinker planking...

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...

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...

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...

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 —...

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...

infantrymen firing shoulder-launched missiles. The term surface-to-surface missile (SSM) is used when appropriate. The longer-range anti-ship missiles are...

single engine static test fire. In January 2023, Booster 7 and Ship 24 conducted a Wet Dress Rehearsal. On April 20, 2023, Ship 24 was destroyed in flight...

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...

suffered four onboard fires or explosions: in 1965, 1972, 1981, and 1994. In the last of these, in 1994, the ship caught fire and sank in the Indian...

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...

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...

fitted to varied types of ships, dating back to antiquity. The weapon comprised an underwater prolongation of the bow of the ship to form an armoured beak...

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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)...

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...

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...

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 ...

disastrous fire in 1965 prompted new laws regarding safety at sea. The ship was the second of two identical ships built by the William Cramp & Sons Ship and...

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...

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...