fire ship

ship filled with combustibles, deliberately set on fire, and then steered or allowed to drift into an enemy fleet
Vehicle ship_type Q897986
fire ship
A copy by an unknown artist of a 1767 painting by Dominic Serres (1722-1793) · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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fire ship

Summary

fire ship is a ship type[1]. It draws 222 Wikipedia views per month (ship_type category, ranking #86 of 315).[2]

Key Facts

  • fire ship's image is recorded as The Defeat of the French Fireships attacking the British Fleet at Anchor before Quebec.jpg[3].
  • fire ship's instance of is recorded as ship type[4].
  • fire ship's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh87004143[5].
  • fire ship's subclass of is recorded as warship[6].
  • fire ship's subclass of is recorded as ship[7].
  • fire ship's Commons category is recorded as Fire ships[8].
  • fire ship's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01wf02[9].
  • fire ship's Universal Decimal Classification is recorded as 623.971[10].
  • fire ship's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[11].
  • fire ship's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • fire ship's different from is recorded as fireboat[13].
  • fire ship's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1882107[14].
  • fire ship's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007538995505171[15].
  • fire ship's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/39abee0e-af7c-4931-8758-b54395fea385[16].

Why It Matters

fire ship draws 222 Wikipedia views per month (ship_type category, ranking #86 of 315).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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