- 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)...
- ammunition.
Early bomb vessels were
rigged as
ketches with two masts. They were
awkward vessels to handle, in part
because bomb ketches typically had the...
-
Ghost Rider (Daniel "Danny"
Ketch) is a
fictional character appearing in
American comic books published by
Marvel Comics. He is the
third Marvel character...
- USS
Vesuvius was a
bomb ketch, and the
first ship of the
United States Navy
named for the
Italian volcano.
Vesuvius was
built by
Jacob Coffin at Newburyport...
- expedition. The
vessel was sold to Tripoli,
which she
served as Mastico. The
bomb ketch was one of
several Tripolitan vessels which captured Philadelphia on 31...
- A
ketch is a two-masted
sailboat whose mainmast is
taller than the
mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and
whose mizzen mast is
stepped forward of the
rudder post...
- the
hospital ship Looe (Timothy Splaine), the
bomb-
ketch Basilisk (John Hubbard) and an
unnamed bomb tender. Real San
Felipe (San
Felipe El Real) 74...
-
February 16, 1804, a
small contingent of U.S.
Marines in a
captured Tripolitan ketch rechristened USS Intrepid and led by
Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr. were...
-
commanded by
Commander Cole. HMS Harvey, a
bomb ketch,
commanded by
Lieutenant Mound. HMS Moth, a
bomb ketch,
commanded by
Lieutenant Duncan. HMS Clam...
- had to
reroute to
Havana after sustaining damage in a storm), and two
bomb ketches,
Vulcain and Cyclope. Furthermore, the
squadron had two steamers, Météore...