Fireship

Francis Drake hardly figures at all: he has a couple of late scenes in a ship's cabin with map on table, saying "what shall we do, Walter?", while Clive Owen's Raleigh is the hero of the hour, single-handedly directing a fireship into the advancing CG Spanish fleet (special effects worse than an episode of Dr Who) and hence repelling the invaders. ❋ Maxine (2009)

El Draque! brought confusion and panic like the descent of a fireship. ❋ Lionheart (2007)

I would have boarded a fireship to get into action, and mildly suggested as much to my friend Pea. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At one point a Royal Navy frigate sent a boat to request that sorry chaps but could a Turkish fireship please be moved. ❋ James Burke (2007)

The Athenians, alarmed for the safety of their fleet, contrived means by which they extinguished their flames, and succeeded in keeping the fireship at a distance. ❋ Thucydides (2007)

Here on board this veritable fireship I cannot help contemplating with a longing eye this vast ocean that surrounds us. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Gylippus attempts to capture some Athenian ships but is thwarted by the Athenians, who also stop a Syracusan fireship before it causes harm. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

He sees but a single white-hulled fireship and two ships with the blue of Cyadoran houses, and he wonders if one might be a ship in which Ryalor House holds an interest. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)

LVIII Lorn stands in the afternoon shadows on the upper level portico of his parents 'dwelling, the wind from the Great Western Ocean in his face as he looks out across the harbor, taking in the scaffolds erected around the Ocean Flame, and the other fireship tied along the same pier farther seaward. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)

"You have permission to request a fireship ... if that is what you were seeking." ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)

The chaos-tower in yet another fireship has failed. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)

From what he can tell, there has been another chaos-explosion, perhaps on a fireship, and a great deal of stress and pressure has been placed on the highest level of the Magi'i. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)

The trunk dwarfs any fireship Lorn had seen and, were it upright, could shade the Palace of Light with fifty cubits to spare. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)

A single white-hulled fireship is moored at the lancer pier. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2000)

"We are having difficulties, as you know, with the chaos-engines for the fireship, and we have the plans for those." ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1997)

Bewared [lads], [that there] [lass] is a fireship! ❋ TheCheezCake (2009)