Sentences with xebec
xe·bec
X x - The awkward xebecs would never be able to outmanoeuvre the British vessels.
- They were the final aria in the long opera which had first joined keel and canvas in the xebecs and dhows of the Mediterranean.
- The Forte, however, having received intelligence that no other British ship than the Seahorse was cruising in the Archipelago, despatched a squadron, composed of two frigates, two corvette, two mortar-vessels, and some xebecs, upon the service in view.
- The officers of the xebecs knew they couldn't outmaneuver or outrun the British so they decided to scuttle their craft, toss their armament overboard and escape on foot to the north.
- Captain John Frankford, commanding the 18-gun privateer Belvedere out of Philadelphia, had several spirited engagements with French xebecs and privateers off the Spanish coast in the spring of 1799 during the Quasi-War with France.
- Many embraced Mohammedonism to escape slavery and at least some joined the xebecs, the swift three masted boats used by the pirates.
- Ships in the game include ships of the line, sloops, xebecs, frigates, gun platforms, and bombards.
- The xebec, as in most ship types, possesses origins difficult to trace.