Sentence examples for pinnace from inspiring English sources

In the Spanish Armada campaign he served as a volunteer in the Charles pinnace and afterward accompanied George Clifford, 3rd earl of Cumberland, on three voyages to the West Indies.

The Pisa afterwards lowered a pinnace, which was fired on by the Turks.

"The pinnace crew were very afraid," says Haïdara. "They called me the following day and I said from now on they must stop sailing at night.

Crossing Davis Strait, the Michael turned back in a storm; the pinnace was lost with all hands.

9. KALMAR NYCKEL, United States: Built in 1997 in Wilmington, Del., this Dutch pinnace is a replica of the vessel that, under Peter Minuit, brought the first Swedish settlers (as well as Germans, Finns and Dutch) to the Delaware Bay area in 1638.

In June 1576, Frobisher left England with two small ships, the Gabriel and the Michael, and an even smaller, unnamed pinnace.

Malian pinnaces are sleek, timber-built cargo boats of traditional design: their prows and sterns bend upwards, like an upturned slice of melon rind.

In one major shipment, 15 pinnaces carrying manuscripts left Timbuktu together.