Word: man-of-war
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...there is in the story plays only a minor and ironic part, centres around the younger (mythical) sister of Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Forester's big guns are trained on Hornblower's spectacular sea fights, his three engagements against the 50-gun Spanish man-of-war Natividad off the coast of South America, his daring raids on French men-of-war in the Mediterranean, his recapture of a British 10-gun cutter at Nantes, his escape from Napoleon's firing squad...
...Yale students making the cruise the ships then proceeded direct to Havana, Cuba for a three day visit. On the tip down all students carried out a detailed schedule of daily training, witnessed fueling a destroyer at sea, search-light demonstrations and the running of a man-of-war in its entirely including engineering, navigation and communications. They were able to put into practice many of the things learned in the classrooms here and in addition were able to get a first hand picture of life aboard a man-of-war...
Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt announced that Ranger will be the name of the sloop now being built at the Bath (Me.) Iron Works, with which he hopes to defend the America's Cup this summer. Ranger is the namesake of the first U. S. man-of-war to hoist the new national flag and the first to receive an official salute from a foreign nation...
When Spanish pirates cannonade and capture the town, Blood and his friends escape to the pirate craft, turn pirates themselves. With Britain at war with France and James II ousted at home by William of Orange, Blood gets a navy commission, captures a French man-of-war in a tremendous battle. That is enough for him to be appointed Jamaica's governor, to Arabella's delight and her uncle's extreme discomfiture...
...They interested a rich New York merchant named Christopher Rhinelander Robert, who in turn interested an oldtime U. S.' missionary in Turkey named Cyrus Hamlin. Merchant & missionary failed, however, to interest His Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. Then one fine day an imposing U. S. man-of-war steamed up the Bosporus with Admiral David Farragut aboard, for a courtesy call on the Sultan. His Imperial Majesty hastily reversed himself, handed the U. S. Legation a gracious iradé (permit) to build. Hence it happened that in 1869 there began to rise on the Bosporus bluffs five...