A ship's boat is a utility boat carried by a larger vessel. Ship's boats have always provided transport between the shore and other ships. Other work...
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As a ship's boat, the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender...
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Paddle steamer Patrol boat Pedalo (paddle boat) Personal water craft (PWC) Pinnace (ship's boat) Pink (ship) Pirogue Pleasure barge Pleasure craft Police...
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vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used under sail or oars, or, historically, to a type of...
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windlass that allowed a ship's anchor to be carried or to be weighed (raised). This second essential role, generally for a ship's boat and specifically for...
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A ship's tender, usually referred to as a tender, is a boat or ship used to service or support other boats or ships. This is generally done by transporting...
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thirty-eight enlisted men. The vessel carried one 4 m (13 ft) yawl as a ship's boat. The boats were originally to be armed with three Škoda 66 mm (2.6 in) L/30...
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A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size or capacity,...
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of ship's boat. The design evolved throughout its period in service. The term is still used informally when describing modern ship's motorized ship's rescue...
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servant" since it comes from cock, referring to the cockboat, a type of ship's boat, and swain, an Old English term derived from the Old Norse sveinn meaning...
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