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It seemed that off the western end of Juist, the island lying west of Norderney, there lay the bones of a French war-vessel, wrecked ages ago.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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They took him into custody, and put him on board a Greek war-vessel, with a warning against trying to re-enter Canea.
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One day I was on board the Independence frigate, dining with the ward-room officers, when a war-vessel was reported in the offing, which in due time was made out to be the
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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The warden of the Danish coast was riding his rounds one morning when he beheld from the white cliffs a strange war-vessel making for the shore.
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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It took just forty hours to change the _Teutonic_ from a merchantman into a war-vessel.
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Thus it happened that one day the Warden of the Coast, riding on his round along the Danish shores, saw from the white cliffs a strange war-vessel running in to shore.
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Captain Lawrence had to engage many men who had never been on a war-vessel before, and did not know how to work the guns.
Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor John Fretwell
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She had conquered one first-class war-vessel of the public enemy, it was true, but at what awful cost!
Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950
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She arrived in Liverpool on June 21st, and immediately received orders to transform herself into a war-vessel, and take her place in the naval review at Spithead.
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For with modern armaments it is seldom indeed that a single man lives through the defeat in battle of a war-vessel of space.
Triplanetary 1927
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