Sentence examples for boat cloak from inspiring English sources

The crew of his flagship, the Burford, used to call him Old Grog, because of a grogram boat cloak that he wore on the quarterdeck.

Gone are the early flowers and furbelows in favor of a stark background on which the figure of Queen Elizabeth II is silhouetted in an admiral's black boat cloak.

Back in 1739, there was a British admiral named Edward Vernon, who became a popular hero by taking the Central American city of Porto Bello from the Spaniards.…The crew of his flagship, the Burford, used to call him Old Grog, because of a grogram boat cloak that he wore on the quarterdeck.

Spurred on by the successful testing of the boat-cloak, Halkett designed a larger version that folded into a knapsack.

Bellot took a Halkett boat-cloak on the journey, noting in his journal that it was "of immense value in a country where the want of wood renders it impossible to form any sort of raft".

In November 1844, Halkett hoped to test the boat-cloak in bad weather conditions, in the rough seas of the Bay of Biscay, but the weather was unusually calm.

Buoyed by this success, he took the prototype boat-cloak with him while on naval service, using it whenever the opportunity arose to test it under various sea conditions.

In early 1844, Halkett successfully tested a prototype boat-cloak on the River Thames, paddling it 15 km without taking on any water, despite, in his words, being "met by passed by and almost run down by various Metropolitan Steamers plying to and fro in their several vocations, and causing no little commotion in the troubled waters of the River".

The boat-cloak was positively received by explorers; John Richardson (who had almost died during the 1819 1822 Coppermine expedition) wrote that "Had we been possessed of such a contrivance in our first expedition, I have little doubt of our having brought the whole party in safely".

F.Y.I., there's not a single picture of my new boat shoes or the madras cloak I got at American Apparel.

When deflated, the hull of the boat could be worn as a cloak, the oar used as a walking stick, and the sail as an umbrella.