Bomb Vessel
Parent Type: Sailing Warships
Quick Facts
- Era
- 18th–19th Century
- Role
- Bombardment sailing ship
- Notable For
- Mortar bombardment
Bomb vessels were equipped with heavy mortars for attacking shore positions.
Related Types
- Armoured Frigate
- Bomb Ketch
- Brig
- Brig-sloop
- Central Battery Ironclad
- Composite Sloop
- Dispatch Vessel
- Fifth-rate Frigate
- Fireship
- First-rate Ship of the Line
- Fourth-rate Ship of the Line
- Gun-brig
- Ironclad
- Packet Frigate
- Packet Ship
- Paddle Steamer Warship
- Post Ship
- Screw Corvette
- Screw Frigate
- Second-rate Ship of the Line
- Ship of the Line
- Ship-rigged Sloop
- Sixth-rate Frigate
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- Third-rate Ship of the Line
- Turret Ship
- Wooden Steam Frigate