These boats successfully plied up and down the Nile and across seas for thousands of years, despite the limitations of the configuration.
Massue attacked U-64 with depth charges, but the U-boat successfully evaded her attacker.
One car and two boats successfully used the combined power of two R engines.
In 1709 he built a man-powered paddle-wheel boat that successfully demonstrated the practicability of using the paddle wheel in place of oars on steam-driven ships.
At a briefing last week, Jean-Paul Troadec, the head of the investigations bureau, said a salvage boat had successfully raised dozens of pieces of the plane, including its engines, most of the cockpit and several onboard computers.
Although the it was escorted by a Japanese patrol boat, they successfully sank Tencho Maru, an army cargo ship, with the sinking credited to Tiptoe.
The Australian navy says it is doubtful any of the life boats were successfully launched.
Barring a brief period in 1942 43, when U-boats operated successfully in so-called wolf packs, submarines have always been solo performers, relying for successful attack on concealment and surprise rather than concentration of force.
Only three rowing boats have successfully completed the North Pacific crossing - and none have reached Canada.
Once in the water, your boat has to successfully navigate away from the unpredictable vortexes near the shoreline and out into the deep, middle channel of the river that will take you quickly in the direction you want to go.
But boats can beat successfully against a current (and make room for more passengers on board), or they can just be carried backward toward the sea.
