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Перевод: sloop
[существительное] шлюп ; сторожевой корабль
Тезаурус:
- The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners; she is saved but she has lost her memory; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore.
- Although the 80ft British sloop charged through the fleet yesterday morning, it is still 68 miles behind the leader, Fisher Paykel.
- SWAN 65/030 sloop "JAGUAR":
- Finally, to his delight, he came upon a 41-ship convoy from the Baltic, escorted only by a 20-gun sloop, the Countess of Scarborough , and a 44-gun frigate, the Serapis .
- Jaguar's appearance and condition belie her age and we believe she is the only Swan 65 sloop in the market.
- While Charles had been withdrawing northward the sloop Prince Charles , formerly, until taken as a prize, His Majesty's Ship Hazard , had been on its way to him from France with some Irish troops, arms and, most important of all, 13,600 in gold.
- But the 80ft British sloop is still 68 miles behind the leader Fisher and Paykel, writes Bob Fisher.
- Within a few months George Dundas was himself commander of the Lutine , and on 2nd November transferred in this rank to the sloop Calpe , again newly commissioned, and with this record of command his career was firmly established and his subsequent rise rapid, for in this case Keith had made no mistake in patronising a friend.
- A 92 sloop by Camper Nicholson.
- While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the "Recruit", a naval sloop of war, and a press-gang seized various members of her crew, including the unfortunate Jeffrey, who immediately found himself aboard the "Recruit" under a Captain Lake.
- On 1 November 1777 he sailed from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in command of the 318-ton USS Ranger , a sloop with a crew of 150, armed with 18 nine-pounder 4-kg guns, to carry news of General Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga to Benjamin Franklin, the US ambassador in Paris.
- The escape, made possible in part by the chemical explosion in Quinn of the Fury , is followed by a series of independent forays in which Quinn seizes a French sloop carrying hides by following it into a secret harbour and pretending he and his men are drunken sailors returning on board, rescues Royalist prisoners from a castle by skulking and climbing, seizes another French ship by disguising the prize vessel under his command as French, and outwits a pirate ship by means of a collision (rescuing, by the way, a young Contessa who adds a romantic touch to the story).
- Lawrie Smith in the 80ft sloop Rothmans was 12 miles behind the leader but still 10 miles clear of Markku Wiikeri's Martela OF.
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