different purpose. Some whaleboats were used from whaling ships. Other whaleboats would operate from the shore. Later whaleboats usually could operate under...
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The Whaleboat War was a series of actions fought by American privateers in the aftermath of the British victory Battle of Long Island and in the context...
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Merwez Whaleboat is an Australian actress. For her performance in RAN Remote Area Nurse she was nominated for the 2006 Australian Film Institute Award...
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The Whaleboat House (originally published with the title Amagansett) is a 2004 crime novel by British writer Mark Mills. It is set shortly after the Second...
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A Nantucket sleighride is the dragging of a whaleboat by a harpooned whale while whaling. It is an archaic term from the early days of open-boat whaling...
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of South America, the 20-man crew was forced to make for land in three whaleboats with what food and water they could salvage from the wreck. After a month...
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Ballenero Channel (redirect from Whaleboat Sound)
(and back).(Chilean ships can use Paso Aguirre) It was formerly known as Whaleboat Sound, as in US Hydrographic Office, South America Pilot, (1916). Fjords...
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Whaleboat Island Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located just southeast of Ruxton Island, to the southeast of...
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that each whaleboat had 200 pounds of hardtack, 65 gallons of freshwater, and two Galapagos tortoises. The crew was divided into three whaleboats commanded...
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George Bass (section Whaleboat voyage to Western Port)
attempt to cross the Blue Mountains. In 1797, without Flinders, in an open whaleboat with a crew of six, Bass sailed to Cape Howe, the farthest point of south-eastern...
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