Sentence examples for boat capable from inspiring English sources

The largest boat on shipboard is the launch or longboat, originally a burdensome sailing and rowing boat capable of carrying such heavy loads as anchors and cannon.

A parishioner had told him that Father Mullane had a friend in Key West with a 100-foot boat capable of carrying large loads to northern Haiti.

The Ady Gil, a former racing boat capable of speeds up to 57 miles an hour, was added to the Sea Shepherd fleet in October.

The Nisshin Maru, the only boat capable of processing and storing captured whales, is believed to be more than 600 kilometres northwest of the other ships.

There it soon became apparent that a destroyer was in effect a superior sort of torpedo boat, capable of delivering its weapon against capital ships during or immediately after a fleet engagement.

Spotz's boat is the work of Phil Morrison, a British yacht designer who had been asked by Chay Blythe, a well-known Scottish rower, to design a small, light boat capable of surviving extreme conditions.

Fire boats, capable of blasting river water from deck-mounted hoses, were called to the scene.

Few stood a chance against the new turbine boats, capable of speeds exceeding 200 m.p.h.

He outfitted the ships with as few guns as possible, as he wanted lightweight boats capable of achieving maximum ramming speed.

The abolition of protectionist laws had opened China-to-Britain shipping routes to fast American boats, capable of winning the lucrative annual race to London with the new tea harvest.

Iran maintains a large military equipped with Russian-made weapons systems, surface-to-surface missiles, combat aircraft, unmanned drones and high-speed torpedo boats capable of destroying large warships.