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True it is, that those who undertook to vindicate him on the spot, asserted, that there was not water enough for our great ships near the town: though this was a little unfortunately urged, because there happened to be pilots in the fleet perfectly well acquainted with the soundings of the harbour, who affirmed there was water enough for five eighty-gun ships to lie abreast almost up to the very walls.

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

On June 12, de Ruyter advanced unopposed up the Medway, burned four anchored English ships-of-the-line, then towed back to Holland the eighty-gun Royal Charles, the largest vessel in the Royal Navy.

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

Nelson took the Franklin at the Nile, an eighty-gun thing of great beauty, but the navy will be damned if it has a ship named after a traitorous bloody Yankee so we call her the Canopus now.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

The English ships were all seventy-fours; the French had three eighty-gun ships, and one three-decker of one hundred and twenty.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Captain Nelson had every hope of getting the Agamemnon, one of these flyers, alongside an eighty-gun ship, with a flag or broad pendant flying; but the west wind dying away, and the east coming, gave them the advantage, and enabled them to reach their own shore, from which they were not three leagues distant.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

Commodore Linzee, at Tunis, negotiating for a French convoy under an eighty-gun ship and a corvette.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

Next day, the Phoebe joined the fleet; who had, on the l9th, seen a French eighty-gun ship get into

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

By staying here, and employed, they would liberate us from our enemy close to our door; gratify the Emperor of Russia; protect our Levant trade; and relieve a squadron of our ships from the service: besides giving us one eighty-gun ship, two forty-gun frigates, a Maltese new ship of the line ready for sea, and two frigates.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

A fortnight later we fell in with a Spanish eighty-gun ship, a large frigate and a heavy-armed store ship.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

By this time the Captain's rigging was all shot away; and she lay unmanageable abreast of the eighty-gun ship, the San Nicolas.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906