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The next ship in Collingwood's column, the two-decked Belleisle, was still a long way behind which meant the Royal Sovereign must fight the enemy single-handed until help arrived.
Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
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Sharpe tracked the French line, looking for the Revenant, but there were so many black-and-yellow two-decked ships that he could not distinguish her.
Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
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He walked southwards, away from his gunsmoke, to see the two-decked Vengeance raise her gunports.
Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987
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This _Bucintora_ was a two-decked vessel propelled by one hundred and sixty of the strongest rowers of the Venetian fleet.
Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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The _Ohio_ was two-decked, with the upper deck flush.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle
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Tell; one of the largest and finest two-decked ships in the world: where he shewed that matchless intrepidity, and able conduct, as a seaman and officer, which I have often had the happiness to experience, in many trying situations.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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I send the Foudroyant, as she is my own flag-ship, and the first two-decked ship in the world.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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Goliath, his force was now fifteen sail of two-decked English ships, and three Portuguese, with a fireship and cutter.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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And concentration with a long line of dreadnoughts is no more possible to-day than it was with a similar line of two-decked sailing ships a century and a half ago.
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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She might have been of three hundred tons burthen; she was black and two-decked, and very high at poop and forecastle, and she was heavily armed.
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
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