Pinnace

An 'I'd ha' done it, too, only the pinnace from the flagship was just comin 'alongside. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thither we went in a fine boat they call a pinnace, with six oars; his servants, and horses, and baggage going in the ferry-boat. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The name pinnace was applied to vessels having a wide range in tonnage, etc., from a craft of hardly more than ten or fifteen tons to one of sixty or eighty. ❋ Azel Ames (1876)

What shall we call the pinnace when she is launched, Mistress White? " ❋ Unknown (1862)

The _Mary_ -- for so Fritz now called the pinnace -- had been ten days at sea, the wind had died away, and for some time scarcely a zephyr had ruffled the surface of the water, the sails were lazily flapping against the mast, and but for the currents, the voyagers would have been almost stationary. ❋ Paul Adrien (N/A)

The pinnace was a big, roomy, and rather heavy boat, pulling ten oars, double banked, and mounting a nine-pounder gun in her bows. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

That our pinnace was a vessel able to withstand such waves as would be met with in the ocean, can be believed when you remember that she was one half the size of the Goodspeed, which we counted a ship. ❋ James Otis (1880)

"calculating," "reckoning," and inexhaustible curiosity of the crew; but their admiration of the ship, her guns, her stores, and her tackle, were boundless; they felt that their pinnace was a mere toy in comparison. ❋ Paul Adrien (N/A)

I would not have meddled with this subject if R. G., getting on a wrong scent, had not arrived at the very extraordinary conclusion that Bramhall meant a "pinnace," and an "offensive composition well known to sailors!" ❋ Various (1852)

In the mean time, our (hip's company were ftrangcly divid - ed in their opinion: fome were very pofuive, that ic was the Marquis come out of port; and, to confirm this, they affcrtcd, that the fail had no fore top-maft; upon which we recalled the pinnace, put a cap aboard her for the Marquis, and then fent her away again; and by this time it was noon. ❋ Unknown (1767)

A motor-pinnace splashed down heavily into the water from the cruiser, turned, and made for the sinking wreckage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

These video blogs have reached a new pinnace of ridiculousness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One or two of the models are historical, the caravel and the fifteenth-century pinnace, but most of them are little vessels of my own, ships that I have owned or sailed in in my time, that I keep for remembrance and as pointers of experience. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having increased, he attacked with his pinnace, and captured a large English transport which was carrying troops to Sicily, and which was so loaded down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the sea. ❋ Unknown (2008)

James Stewart attacked with two large ships and a pinnace. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

The French and British vessels got underway at about the same time, the French sailing upstream from Gaspé with the four large merchantmen, and the English coming down from Tadoussac with their five or six large ships, plus the smaller French pinnace that they had captured. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

He put his French captives aboard a passing New England pinnace and ordered the captain to maroon them on a barren island in Penobscot Bay—a sentence to death by starvation. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

My [pinnace] get`s around. Defend the pinnace [at all cost]. All hands on the pinnace. [Take a ride] on my pinnace. ❋ Viper344 (2009)

[Juan] [likes] pinnacs ❋ Poopu24 (2021)