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and again in 953 Russian fleets narrowly escaped destruction by fire ships.

Age of fighting sail, refinement

While fire ships were used in the Medieval period, notably during the Crusades, these were typically ships that were set up with combustibles on an ad hoc basis. The career of the modern fire ship, as a naval vessel type designed for this particular function and made a permanent addition to a fleet, roughly parallels the era of cannon-armed sailing ships,

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