Sentence examples for pilot boat from inspiring English sources
noun
A kind of boat used to transport pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting.
Other guys fell and hit the pilot boat.
The pilot boat pulled alongside the ship, and Captain Naples climbed aboard.
Captain Naples, in his suit and tie, boarded the pilot boat that would take him to it.
Gov. George E. Pataki listened closely yesterday as he stood on the deck of the pilot boat New York with Brian Monahan, the Democratic mayor of Dobbs Ferry.
On September 29 , 1951 the pilot boat New Jersey was standing at a pier in the Jersey City repair yard of a marine overhaul and repair firm for its annual overhaul.
Pilot boats, ratlike, scurry away from these tankers.
It was modeled after the pilot boats that carried 19th-century ship captains and harbor pilots to oceangoing vessels anchored offshore.
The hallways, stairs and offices are lined with Jacobsen paintings of steamships and barks, packet boats and passenger ships, pilot boats and clipper ships sailing the bounding main.
Founded in Fishguard in 1984, the firm has been based at Pembroke Dock since 1997, where it has been building and supplying boats for commercial use, including pilot boats, wind farm support vessels, workboats and passenger vessels to customers across the world.
Pilot boats' standard consisted of a national flag bordered in white.
