Conversely, Fleet Captain Honoré Ganteaume later reported the cause as an explosion on the quarterdeck, preceded by a series of minor fires on the main deck among the ship's boats.

* In Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Helsingør fires mortar shells at the heroes in book seven, The Surgeon's Mate, as they sail past on their way to a rendezvous in the Baltic.

A second fire, or series of fires, struck from the German air-raids in April and May 1940, and destroyed about two thirds of the town.

Vostrikov orders a series of diving maneuvers during which he directs Polenin to simulate a number of emergencies including fires and flooding while he times the crew's response.

This fire tower replaced a series of observation buildings, the original being a flimsy lookout stand built in 1870 on the same site, built in response to a series of devastating fires: April 1869, November 1869, October 1871, August 1872 and January 1874 that swept through the early mining camp.

Originally created as Lafayette National Park in 1919, the first National Park East of the Mississippi, The forest fire was one of a series of fires that consumed much of Maine's forest as a result of a dry year.

Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires ( such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches ), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog.

A series of devastating fires struck the port city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, early in the 19th century.

* Telchines appear in the fourth book of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Battle of the Labyrinth under the name Telkhines, where they remade the scythe of Kronos in the fires of Mount St. Helens and claim to have made Poseidon's trident.

The Coast Range behind Tillamook was the scene of a repeated series of forest fires called the Tillamook Burn between 1933 and 1951.

Berengaria was sold for scrap in 1938 after a series of fires.

Because the medieval city was largely built of wood and stone houses were the exception, fire was a constant risk and a series of fires in 1517, 1750 and again on 7 May 1862 earned the people from Enschede the nickname Brandstichters ( arsonists ).

A series of fires in the 1860s and 1870s gutted the downtown area.

Also beginning near the Estates, the Witch Fire began October 21, 2007 and was part of a series of fires that ravaged Southern California.

A series of other fires leveled Holland and Manistee, Michigan, as well as Peshtigo, Wisconsin and Chicago on the same day.

A 1918 series of fires that destroyed a block of the town's main street was attributed to anti-German crusaders.

Due to a series of arson and fires beginning in the 1970s, Antlers lost a number of its stores, changing the character of its downtown.

The mill operations closed in 1984, after a series of fires.

A series of fires in the early 1890s, probably set to collect insurance on unprofitable properties, destroyed many of the new business establishments.

A series of fires destroyed East Charleston May 18, 1921, and West Charleston on the following day.

However, a series of disastrous fires, the first in 1900 and then two more in 1914, virtually wiped out the business district, depriving the Town of much of its earliest architectural heritage.

With the government nearly bankrupt, and series of devastating structural fires that swept through the downtown area and nearly took down every high rise the city had so feverishly built, the city was nearly destroyed.

Luna Park closed in 1946 after a series of fires, and the New York street gang problems of the 1950s spilled into Coney Island.

* 2006 – The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia.

However, during another series of severe floods the Meuse found an additional path towards the sea, resulting in the creation of the Biesbosch wetlands and Hollands Diep estuaries.

The original settlement of Fort Louis de la Mobile was relocated in 1711 to the head of Mobile Bay following a series of floods.

A series of dramatic floods known as the Missoula Floods took place 15, 000-13, 000 years ago, as several ice dams melted, forming a series of low steps such as the " Heights ", " Mill Plain ", " Fourth Plain " and " Fifth Plain ".

Remembering the misery and destruction caused by the 1910 Great Flood of Paris, the French government built a series of reservoirs called Les Grands Lacs de Seine ( or Great Lakes ) which helps remove pressure from the Seine during floods, especially the regular winter flooding.

China's Qing Dynasty bureaucracy, which devoted extensive attention to minimizing famines, is credited with averting a series of famines following El Niño-Southern Oscillation-linked droughts and floods.

A series of great floods occurred in Bendigo in 1859.

Composed of a series of dams, it redirected the flow of the Min Jiang, a major tributary of the Yangtze River, to fields, relieving the potential damage of seasonal floods.

A series of floods and mud slides, caused by deforestation, further devastated the remaining population.

The resort stayed open as a dance club and rented boats, but a series of floods caused severe damage.

From 2003-2006, Edmonston struggled from a series of floods resulting from high volumes of stormwater and the now-inadequate flood pumping station.

The city experienced a series of floods in the 1940s and 1950s.

After a series of devastating floods in the past five years, the city is in the process of moving its entire downtown area ( the area originally encompassing Harman, which lies in a flood plain ) to the southernmost point in the city at the foot of East River Mountain.

Around 1770 the Great North Road around Newark ( now the A1 ) was raised on a long series of arches to ensure it remained clear of the regular floods it experienced.

* Saguenay Flood, a series of flash floods that hit the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada in July 1996

However, during another series of severe floods the Maas found an additional path towards the sea, resulting in the creation of the Biesbosch and Hollands Diep.

The north flowing Teays River was dammed by glaciers, and damming of other rivers led to a series of floods as lakes overflowed into adjacent valleys.

After a series of major floods in the early 1950s, the City Council protected the city area on the south flood plain through construction of a levee, completed in 1962.

In the 1550s, a series of Aare floods destroyed the valley floor villages of Balm and Bürglen, both of which were abandoned.

Kumari Kandam supposedly lay south of present-day Kanyakumari District and, according to these legends, was seized by the sea in a series of catastrophic floods.

In response to this flooding, the Santa Clara Valley Water District ( SCVWD ) launched a series of flood protection projects along the Guadalupe River to ensure that residential and commercial areas near the river are protected from 100-year floods.

In the early 1930s, following high demand for preventive safety measures brought on by a series of fatal floods, the river was channelized, with its upper sections redirected underground in large sewage pipes.

The periodic rupturing and rebuilding of the ice dam released the Missoula Floods, a series of catastrophic floods down the Clark Fork and Pend Oreille into the Columbia which sculptured many of the geographic features of eastern Washington and the Willamette Valley of Oregon.