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pinnace::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cutter, ship's boat, tender |
| Type of | boat |
| Has types | gig |
Examples of pinnace
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He had to stay hidden in the pinnace for many weeks so that he couldn't be sent back.
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Cumming positioned the pinnace to cut off the Vincedora's retreat but the brigantine made to ram the boat.
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Several men of the crew, Spanish and French, were able to reach St. Kilda in a pinnace and save their lives.
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After nearly two months in harbour, Drake left the port with a reduced fleet of three ships and a small pinnace.
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However, an attempt to land the pinnace on the Austral Island of Rurutu was thwarted by rough surf and the rocky shoreline.
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The settlement lasts little more than a year, before residents return to England in the first ocean going ship built in the New World, a 30-ton pinnace called The Virginia.
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The British first spotted a merchant junk which appeared to be fleeing the bay so the pinnace of the Rattler and the cutter of the Powhatan were sent to cut the junk out.
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When Governor White left in 1587, he left the colonists with a pinnace and several small ships for exploration of the coast or removal of the colony to the mainland.
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Minutes later, when the pinnace and cutter disappeared from sight, the remaining British and American vessels sighted the pirate fleet which included fourteen large junks and twenty-two smaller ones.
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- Tender: a boat for communication between ship and shore
- A pinnace is one of two marine craft, the first a small vessel used as a tender to larger vessels amongst other things, and the second a ship rigged vessel popular in northern waters through the 17th-19th centuries.
- A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but may also be a rowboat. Pinnaces are usually messenger boats, carrying messages among the larger ships of a fleet
- Resembles a barge, but is never rowing more than eight oars, whereas a barge never rows less than ten. The pinnace is for the accommodation of lieutenants etc.
- A small, fast, maneuverable vessel with two square-rigged masts. Typically 40 feet long, it could carry up to 15 tons of cargo.
- One of two types of ships or boats, either a small craft used to service other ships, or a larger square-rigged ship rather like a small galleon.
- There were five boats belonging to the ship: launch, pinnace, jolly-boat, larboard quarter-boat, and gig. ...
- Formerly, a small, two-masted sailing vessel sometimes with oars.
