A bow-chaser was run out, and a shot fired.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston
At length they got near enough to the lugger to send a shot from a bow-chaser as a signal to heave to.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston
The 40-mile trip "up the river" to Guayaquil, principal port of Ecuador, was made in a Grace Line yacht, Santa Rosita, formerly a submarine chaser powered by a General Motors diesel capable of 27 knots.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett