† ˈbomb-ketch Obs.
[See bomb and ketch.]
A small ketch-rigged vessel, carrying one or two mortars for bombarding.
| 1693 Lond. Gaz. No. 2862/2 Several Bomb-ketches, Fire-ships, etc. 1762 Gentl. Mag. 341 Four French men of war and a bomb-ketch, entered the bay. 1830 I. Taylor The Ship 105 The bomb-ketch is contrived to carry one mortar, but is yet enough of a ship to bear the sea. 1875 Johnson's New Univ. Cycl. (New York) I. 548/1 Bomb-ketch, an obsolete form of mortar-vessel..nearly seventy feet long and drew eight or nine feet of water. It..carried two mortars. |