Sentence examples for ship's boat from inspiring English sources

A reception followed in the Showboat Lounge on the ship's boat deck.

Developed for use by whaling crews, it has superior handling characteristics that made it popular as a general purpose ship's boat, and it often serves as a cutter or gig.

1857: Francis Leopold McClintock finds relics at King William Island, including a ship's boat on runners containing two corpses.

On 19 February, the remaining crew managed to commandeer a Chinese tongkang and using that and the ship's boat, they reached Singkep in the Dutch East Indies.

On 24 April 1854 a capsized ship's boat bearing the name Bella was discovered off the Brazilian coast, together with some wreckage but no personnel, and the ship's loss with all hands was assumed.

Upon Mawson's return, the Aurora was recalled by wireless radio, but powerful katabatic winds sweeping down from the plateau prevented the ship's boat from reaching the shore to collect the men.

Do not concern yourself with the ship's boats," he ordered.

The fortunate passengers were off-loaded on to the ship's boats, the less fortunate on to a raft, which was later, quite deliberately, cast adrift.

The captain then asked, almost ritually, "Where away?," and all hands were summoned on deck to lower the ship's boats — there were usually four — for the chase, in the direction the lookout indicated.

A number of seaman requested permission to take to the ship's boats.

Midshipmen lived in the gunroom, kept watches, and ran the ship's boats.