He had made good use of Paolo in the affair of the bomb ketches.

What on earth were bomb ketches doing here, along the Italian coast?

Or a couple of galliots turned into bomb ketches.

A squadron of cavalry, a few field guns and two bomb ketches are not going to make much impression.

He looked across at each bomb ketch in turn and saw that theyhad not noticed the colours.

I can't remember ever hearing of the French using bomb ketches - not in this way, anyway.

"I've never served in a bomb ketch; never even seen one fire a round."

"Nowhere near us or the bomb ketches," he said.

The two bomb ketches were to remain there to give some protection to what is otherwise a poorly defended anchorage.

They were named for the two bomb ketches sent to investigate the Northwest Passage and subsequently lost in 1845.