Also known as fireship, brander
ship filled with combustibles, deliberately set on fire, and then steered or allowed to drift into an enemy fleet
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- ship
- Image
- The Defeat of the French Fireships attacking the British Fleet at Anchor before Quebec.jpg
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- Commons category
- Fire ships
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- fireboat
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