set afloat

A powder magazine was set afloat, but it struck the schooner, which lay at anchor near the frigate.

For years she had been fighting with Napoleon, and every fleet he set afloat was badly whipped by British ships.

In June, 1803, the reconstruction was completed, and the vessel was set afloat in July.

But most perilous of all, most immediately perilous, is the implacable Czarina, set afloat upon English guineas!

False stories were set afloat by Baker in furtherance of such purpose.