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She was built for bottlenose whaling, and four whaleboats hung from her davits.
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Other boats sometimes embarked on a sailing ship included the cutter,whaleboat, gig, jolly boat, launch, dinghy, and punt.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1823, she joined a royal procession honoring her husband's accession to the throne in a car modeled as awhaleboat.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The motorwhaleboatcast off and steered toward the sound.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, boats such as thewhaleboatwere designed for operation from a ship in an offshore environment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They then transferred in turn to awhaleboatthat landed them on a rickety jetty where the four astonished shepherds greeted them.
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Next day they repaired thewhaleboatand completed their biological work.
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Eventually the dinghy was got ashore and the whaleboat's painter was made fast on the beach.
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Groenland survived that gale, although the loss of three of her whaleboats meant that her capabilities in terms of whaling were greatly curtailed.
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While approaching the beach both boats were swamped in the surf, the outboard stalled and could not be restarted, and thewhaleboatbecame immovably stranded on a sand bar.
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One commandeered awhaleboatafter slinging the guard into the water.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The fourth hit on the starboard side, two feet below the main deck; shrapnel from this hit caused extensive damage to the motorwhaleboat.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The topgallant sail was lost, with onewhaleboatdamaged and two destroyed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The basics of thewhaleboatconsists of a rudder, main sail, and occasionally a jib.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thewhaleboatwas faster on the water, and was about a mile (1.6 km) ahead of the flatboats when it reached the ambush site.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unable to steer with the north wind on her port beam, yawing between 80 and 100 degrees, thewhaleboatand depth charges were swept off.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the lee thus formed, the repair ship lowered a motorwhaleboat; that craft picked up 17 men from the first raft.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.And today the gentoos, probably descendants of the ones he studied, nest in the ruins of thewhaleboatshelter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One survivingwhaleboatgot away after being loaded with wounded, but it was destroyed by a shell shortly after.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The skipper of thewhaleboatthen went to the lee side of the cruiser and clambered aboard.
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