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Ship's boats are utility boats carried by larger vessels to act as tenders amongst other roles. Boats had different names depending on hull form, rig, size and role during the Age of Sail, this nomenclature persisting to the present, especially in military circles, long after most distinctions have disappeared.
Usage examples of "ship's boat".
They would be placed in a ship's boat and rowed past all the ships of Bampfylde's command.
Leaning back against the shrouded lump of canvas that was the ship's boat, he yawned widely before looking around.
He, the mate and two sailors were hastily trying to launch the ship's boat.
She cradled him as loosely as she could, while the ship's boat rocked and reared wildly and never seemed to get any closer to the Vivacia.
He hopped nimbly from the ship's boat to the right float of the seaplane, and offered a hand all around as he slid into the other rear seat, putting the assault rifle between his knees.
There were dozens of them, some not much larger than lizards and other brutes with the beam and length of a ship's boat, massive grey monsters, which surely could swallow a man whole.
She was so small that, forward of the mast, there was hardly any deck room between the central hatch and the ship's boat on one side and the hen-coop (Lucy fed the hens) on the other.
General, he sent his ship's boat to the shore to know what they would.
Lazarus hurried to the ship's boat parked on the beach in which Captain King shared with Barstow a semblance of community headquarters.
Those few thousand savages on that planet-designated 'Pitcairn Island,' the catalog number escapes me-are descended from some who reached there, presumably by ship's boat, seven centuries before they were found.
A good-sized ship's boat with six oars to a side and several men seated in the stern, and a light mast with no sail bent to it.
Could nineteen men, unarmed, scantly provided with food and water, crowded to the point of foundering in a ship's boat, make a voyage of full twelve hundred leagues?
Baird's aide said, and it was apparent that the frigate's crew had seen the carriage's arrival, for a ship's boat was now pulling across the river.
He was walking up the shore homeward when he became aware that at some distance ahead of him there was a ship's boat drawn up on the little narrow beach, and a group of men clustered about it.