The corvette is a smart-looking vessel, of 1200 tons burden, and barque rigged. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from Abroad] Reference
The corvette is a great driver's car but man …. leaf springs and a walmart interior?. From Wordnik.com. [Leftlane - news, reviews, and info for the auto-industry] Reference
A corvette is a vessel slightly smaller than a frigate and is suited mainly for coastal protection work. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships will displace 3,000-3,500 tonnes still seems rather small to me--but maybe they really are "corvette" sized. From Wordnik.com. [MND O'Connor interview on CFRA, Ottawa/CDS interview] Reference
"The Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships will displace 3,000-3,500 tonnes still seems rather small to me--but maybe they really are "corvette" sized.". From Wordnik.com. [MND O'Connor interview on CFRA, Ottawa/CDS interview] Reference
The term "corvette" has nothing to do with a sports car as the writer seems to think (re his comment about Rolls-Royce engines ...). From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference
"corvette" type ships, as destroyers tend to displace over 7,000 tons. From Wordnik.com. [StrategyPage.com] Reference
General Grant arrived this morning in the corvette. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
The transports and corvette out to sail as soon as possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
Some considerable delay now occurred on board the corvette; the. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
Maria da Gloria, a fine corvette, is commanded by a French officer. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
A large corvette of his came in while we were there, on this service. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
On the 20th, the Swallow Portuguese corvette brought dispatches of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
A new governor was commissioned and sent out in the Portuguese corvette. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Pg. 179, name of corvette "Don Jooa", is spelled "Don Joao" on page 83. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Commodore Gregory in the flagship corvette Portsmouth, and reported to him. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
French corvette -- "La Bayonnaise;" -- and my lovely little Eagle caged as her lawful prey!. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The French crew who had jumped overboard called to the corvette to fire and sink the lugger. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
English and German, dressed in honour of the American flag, which the corvette flew at her main. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
The same year, the United States frigate Boston captured the French national corvette Le Berceau. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
"In that case, Great Rono, you must have been dreaming in the corvette as well as in the Yankee.". From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Commodore Linzee, at Tunis, negotiating for a French convoy under an eighty-gun ship and a corvette. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
Before we left Macào, the Portuguese corvette Don Joao Primero, had landed the new Governor, Cordoza. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
To add to our risks and misfortunes, a British corvette espied our craft, and gave chase off Cape Maize. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Surveillante, Amazone and Gentille, the corvette Fantasque (which was a hospital-ship) and the cutter La Guêpe. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
Swiftsure brought into the fleet a captured French corvette of eighteen guns, and seventy men, called La Fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
We found in the harbour a frigate of thirty-six guns and a corvette fitted up as a receiving ship for the wounded. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Jamaica — Arrange exchange with captain of home-going ship — A challenge to Spanish corvette declined by the latter. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Are not two frigates, and a corvette, placed under my orders? and they would fight the French, meet them where they may. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
Frankland, of the English corvette "Alarm;" Commander Matson, of the English brig "Daring;" Captain Dubut, of the French brig. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
Fond of adventure, I consented, and we succeeded, so they were that very evening united by the chaplain on board the corvette. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment] Reference
On the 3d of June of this year, the German cruising corvette Augusta left the island of Perrin, in the Straits of Bab el Mandeb, for. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885] Reference
I drifted without a word or motion, and almost without breathing, until the corvette was perfectly obliterated against the hazy horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
By the assistance of a French corvette, and by bribing the king of the country with a musket and ammunition, the fugitives were captured. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
After refitting we joined another frigate to cruise off Havre de Grace, where the enemy had two frigates and a corvette nearly ready for sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
` Ugly, 'however, was so sluggish in his movements through the corvette rolling a bit and the ratlines being none too steady, that Lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
I have already one affair in hand with a Greek corvette for plunder which will be acted on by me in a burning manner, for these fellows require it. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
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