heated shot

Battery number seven was a heated shot position, using ammunition particularly effective against wooden warships.

The British used heated shot to counterattack these batteries.

Especially if they had time to use the heated shot which all fortresses-allied or enemy alike-had adopted over the past year of the war.

Those weapons could hurl heated shot onto any hostile vessel that attempted to enter the bay.

Soon thereafter, a fire broke out, reportedly in her tops or by her own Heated shots.

He also attempted to set the tower on fire with heated shot, but was unable to get the balls hot enough for this to be effective.

Yet another heated shot came swooping towards the Sufi in a smoking parabola.

"No more need for heated shot.

Heated shot was bad enough.

The heated shot set her afire, and her crew was forced to abandon her.

Because of the danger of fire aboard, heated shot were seldom used aboard ships.

The pork-eaters are firing heated shot!

Had the Puerto Crucero garrison test-fired their heated shot, and if so, what was their rate of fire?

As he spoke another heated shot came flying from high on the slope of the bluff, glowing sparks snapping and popping in the air behind it.

The two amidship Dahlgrens nearest the boiler furnaces were fitted-out to fire heated shot.

Many were doused but a rogue heated shot could lie smouldering in the bowels of an enemy ship burning a cavity into the wood.

One maintained the fire and added cold shot, a second man removed heated shot from the furnace, and the third man cleaned them.

The barrel was loaded with powder, then with a thick wad of soaking cloth that stopped the heated shot from igniting the charge.

Fate: Burnt during the Battle of Hyères Islands by her own heated shots, exploded.

However, British artillery in Gibraltar used heated shot to destroy 3 of the 10 batteries, inflicting a loss of 719 crewmen.

In 1792 the Austrian forces besieging Lille used heated shot against the city, which was described as a war crime by the French Republican press.

According to various sources, the fire that caused the explosions of both ships was originated by heated shots fired from HMS Superb.

Today it would be easy, instinct told them that, easy because the vicious heated shot from the great guns had turned the fortresses into hell for their garrisons.

A double bag was used with heated shot to prevent leakage of grains of gunpowder as the bag was rammed down the cannon.

All of the guns were capable of using several different kinds of projectiles: Round shot, chain or bar shot, grape shot, and heated shot.