Word: ketched
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Dates: during 1906-1906
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...Tripolitans floated the frigate, raised the guns, and the refitted ship lay under the guns of the forts when the "Intrepid", a small ketch, brought in by night about 75 men led by Lieutenant Decatur and a Sicilian pilot. The frigate was boarded and burnt, and the ketch escaped under fire of the harbor guns...