Obs. [See BOMB and KETCH.] A small ketch-rigged vessel, carrying one or two mortars for bombarding.

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1693.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2862/2. Several Bomb-ketches, Fire-ships, [etc.].

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1762.  Gentl. Mag., 341. Four French men of war and a bomb-ketch, entered the bay.

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1830.  I. Taylor, The Ship, 105. The bomb-ketch is contrived to carry one mortar, but is yet enough of a ship to bear the sea.

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1875.  Johnson’s New Univ. Cycl. (New York), I. 548/1. Bomb-ketch, an obsolete form of mortar-vessel … nearly seventy feet long and drew eight or nine feet of water. It … carried two mortars.

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