A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannons (long guns or carronades) – although bomb vessels carried a few cannons for self-defence – but mortars mounted forward near the bow and elevated to a high angle, and projecting their fire in a ballistic arc.

2016年9月1日 · Bomb Ketch, galiote a bombe, or simply Bomb, were men-of-war sailing vessels that were in use for approximately 150 years (circa 1680 – 1835). The main armament was not cannon and therefore they did not take their place in line of battle during major sea battles.

Bomb vessels played a significant role in several of the battles fought by the Royal Navy, being deployed to threaten the Danish capital at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, actually firing on the city in 1807, playing a distinctive role in the 1814 Battle of Baltimore, and firing on enemy positions during the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816 ...

2017年6月22日 · Bomb ketches were small, shallow draft ships, able to get close inshore. They were armed with a dastardly weapon, a large bore mortar, which threw an explosive bomb far up in the air so that it cleared the walls of waterside cities or harbours and exploded when it struck the ground, damaging property and killing soldiers and civilians alike.

USS Vesuvius was a bomb ketch, and the first ship of the United States Navy named for the Italian volcano. Vesuvius was built by Jacob Coffin at Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was launched on 31 May 1806 and commissioned in or before September 1806, with Lieutenant James T. Leonard in command.

这种臼炮艇被用于攻击防御坚固的、大型战舰难以接近的船坞和港口城市。 它发射的炮弹一般重200磅，射程为3,000码（2,700米）。 1814年，英军用臼炮艇攻击巴尔的摩，今天的美国国歌中还记载了这件亊。 1695年的英国双桅臼炮艇。 这种用于骚扰敌船的小艇，载有2门13英寸（330毫米）臼炮，为风帆时代的海军提供对岸攻击火力。

5 天之前 · "bomb ketch" published on by null. A ship of the old sailing navies, armed with one, or occasionally two, heavy howitzers or mortars and used for bombarding places ashore. Mostly the mortars were fitted in ketches, either specially built or converted into such from a small three-masted vessel by the removal of its foremast to provide a good ...

…such as fire ships and bomb ketches. The latter, with two large mortars hurling bombs of about 200 pounds (91 kg), were developed by France in the late 1600s and were used with devastating effect against Barbary pirate ports.

Thunder is a name that rings through history in the Royal Navy. Our Thunder was a bomb ketch before being captured and made a Salem Privateer in 1780.

Bomb ketch is now generally used to designate the more old-fashioned sort of mortar vessels (galiotes à bombes). They were built strong enough to resist the shock caused by the recoil of the mortar, 60 to 70 feet long, 100 to 150 tons burden; they drew from 8 to 9 feet water, and were rigged usually with 2 masts.