Just so, a fire-ship had drifted with the tide against such a bridge at Antwerp two years ago. Bold Spanish pikemen had leaped aboard to extinguish what seemed but a sulky fire when the whole ship blew up. Her entrails had been lined with brick and stuffed with gunpowder, stones and scrap-iron, and more men were killed and wounded in that one explosion than in many a pitched battle. No one who had seen ‘the hellburner of Antwerp’ would ever forget it.

Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish A…, loc. 323