Ships of War
“Ship-Money Fleet”
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
fleet · one ship of war of the burden of nine hundred tons · ships · ships of war · ships-of-war
in the texts
Areopagiticus
Naval vessels that symbolize Athenian power, expenditures, military loss, and foreign restraint.
For as things now are, who among intelligent men can fail to be chagrined at what goes on, when we see many of our fellow-citizens drawing lots in front of the law-courts to determine whether they themselves shall have the necessaries of life, yet thinking it proper to support at their expense any of the Hellenes who will deign to row their ships;
Well then, the Hellenes felt such confidence in those who governed the city in those times that most of them of their own accord placed themselves under the power of Athens, while the barbarians were so far from meddling in the affairs of the Hellenes that they neither sailed their ships-of-war this side of the Phaselis nor marched their armies beyond the Halys River, refraining, on the contrary, from all aggression.
When we lost our fleet in the Hellespont and our city was plunged into the disasters of that time, who of our older men does not know that the “people’s party,” as they were called, were ready to go to any length of hardship to avoid doing what the enemy commanded, deeming it monstrous that anyone should see the city which had ruled over the Hellenes in subjection to another state, whereas the par …
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The several ships of war, specified by tonnage and crew, which London and other counties were commanded to provide, arm, and victual for the defence of the sea.
The ships and arms to be provided are to continue the subject’s own in property.
four other ships of war, every of them of the burden of five hundred tons, and every of them with two hundred men at the least, as well expert masters, as very able and skilful mariners: