Direction:- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

A fire ship or fireship, used in the days of wooden rowed or Sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, or gunpowder deliberately set on fire and steered (of, when possible, allowed to drift) into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy ships, or to create Panic and make the enemy break formation. Warships of the age of sail were highly vulnerable to fire. Made of wood, with seams caulked with tar, ropes greased with fat, and stores of gunpowder, there was little that would not burn on these ships. Accidental fires destroyed many ships, so fire ships presented a terrifying threat. Fire ships were most devastating against fleets which were at anchor or otherwise restricted in movement. At sea, a well-handled ship could evade a fire ship and disable it with cannon fire. Other tactics were to fire at the ship's boats and other vessels in the vicinity so that the crew could not escape and therefore might decide not to ignite the ship, or to wait until the fire ship had been abandoned and then tow it aside with small maneuverable vessels such as galleys: Fireships were used to great effect by the outgunned English fleet against the Spanish Armada during the Battle of Gravelines, the Dutch Raid on the Medway, the Chinese in the Battle of Red Cliffs, and by the Greeks in the Greek War of Independence. From the beginning of the 19th century, steam propulsion and the use of iron, rather than wood, in shipbuilding gradually came into use, making fife ships less of a threat.