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  • Lexicon:Pratique boat
    <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">pratique boat</td>
    2 KB (208 words) - 13:50, 13 November 2007

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  • The Mauritius Command
    …attery, disrupting British gunnery. ''Victor'' strikes but then escapes. Boat party from Sirius (S. Pym) recaptures Windham once more (Aug. 21). Sirius…
    7 KB (948 words) - 09:23, 24 November 2010
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    …icted at the wheel steering the ship. A coxswain may steer a racing rowing boat but in the Navy the [[Royal Navy ranks#Petty Officers|petty officer]] in c…
    7 KB (1175 words) - 21:26, 17 April 2008
  • HMS Leopard (ship)
    …itish deserters, Captain Salisbury Pryce Humphreys of the "Leopard" sent a boat on board the ''Chesapeake'' and requested permission to search it. Commodo…
    3 KB (478 words) - 17:08, 15 March 2010
  • Articles of War
    …l unlawfully burn or set fire to any magazine or store of powder, or ship, boat, ketch, hoy, or vessel, or tackle or furniture thereunto belonging, not th…
    20 KB (3467 words) - 09:31, 24 November 2010
  • Sidney Smith
    …er prison. Instead they brought him to Le Havre where he boarded a fishing boat and was picked up by a British frigate on patrol in the [[English Channel]…
    18 KB (3010 words) - 09:30, 24 November 2010
  • Summary for The Commodore
    …'Nancy'' sunk by gunfire in Freetown harbour - eight more slavers taken by boat raids - no shore leave after sunset - [[John Square]], Krooman, takes Step…
    6 KB (897 words) - 05:15, 16 January 2009
  • Summary for The Nutmeg of Consolation
    …ce - quarrel over Padeen - Stephen and Martin return to Woolloo-Woolloo by boat - water-moles or platypuses - Stephen stung by poisoned spur - taken back …
    5 KB (886 words) - 16:34, 17 January 2009
  • Summary for The Reverse of the Medal
    …]] [[frigate]], finally ''Spartan'' - complex manoeuvring, luffing-match - boat launched, sunk by [[Awkward Davies]] - night and day chase - fishing boats…
    6 KB (1014 words) - 19:20, 5 May 2008
  • US frigate Chesapeake
    … that they are pursued by a boat from the ''Chesapeake'', but the pursuing boat turns out to be on a training exercise. The final chapter describes the ba…
    9 KB (1427 words) - 15:48, 28 February 2012
  • Summary for The Surgeon's Mate
    ''Minnie'' aground, French officers killed in boat - pulled off - Stephen's
    4 KB (660 words) - 19:58, 3 February 2010
  • Summary for Post Captain
    …s the mutiny by separating the instigators and some loyal crew in a ship's boat. …nds [[Gaelic]] - action at rendezvous - Harte displeased at missing guinea-boat - ''Polychrest'' to sail with convoy for [[Lisbon]] - Jack dallies on shor…
    13 KB (2072 words) - 07:10, 12 November 2010
  • Summary for The Far Side of the World
    … Islands|Galapagos]], difficult strait - [[iguana]]s, [[tortoise]]s, etc - boat from ''Intrepid Fox'', taken by ''Norfolk'' - Jack won't allow Stephen to …
    7 KB (1029 words) - 05:44, 16 January 2009
  • HMS Shannon
    …ack Aubrey]], [[Stephen Maturin]] and [[Diana Villiers]] escape in a small boat from Boston and are picked up by ''Shannon'' just before her action with t…
    2 KB (379 words) - 15:24, 24 January 2019
  • Summary for The Unknown Shore
    …ey struggle with savage currents and cruel weather until, after losing one boat and being compelled to abandon four volunteers to fend for themselves asho… … [[Brest]]. The Englishmen book a passage to [[Dover]] on a Dutch fishing-boat; her captain breaks his word and turns eastward for his home, but an Engl…
    8 KB (1388 words) - 05:34, 16 January 2009
  • Cutter
    *A ship's boat, usually 25ft (7.6m) in length. This type of cutter could be either rowed…
    1 KB (224 words) - 14:38, 1 February 2009
  • Weigh
    …hed to a [[tackle]] suspended from the boat's [[davit]]. The crew of the boat would haul on this until the anchor came free. The anchor-cable could the…
    6 KB (1030 words) - 09:32, 24 November 2010
  • Boom
    …escribe the sundry extra spars carried amidships and on which the ship's [[boat]]s are often stored on those vessels lacking [[davit]]s.
    731 B (125 words) - 19:24, 11 November 2007
  • Geoff Hunt
    …of ''[[HMS Sophie]]'' in a harbour, probably [[Port Mahon]], with a ship's boat rowing past, while ''[[Desolation Island (novel)|Desolation Island]]'' sho…
    984 B (161 words) - 09:33, 24 November 2010
  • Lexicon:Aviso
    <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">a small messenger-boat</td>
    3 KB (357 words) - 04:44, 13 November 2007
  • Lexicon:Curragh/s
    <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">very small fishing boat(s)</td>
    2 KB (267 words) - 05:08, 13 November 2007
  • Lexicon:Farden skiff
    …-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">a farthing skiff; i.e., a small river boat that can be hired for a farthing</td>
    2 KB (260 words) - 05:15, 13 November 2007
  • Lexicon:Ohé, de la barca
    <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">Ahoy, in the boat</td>
    2 KB (258 words) - 05:38, 13 November 2007
  • Lexicon:Ohé, du bâteau. ...
    <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">Ahoy, the boat.<br>Ahoy: the Diane, where's she at the moment?<br>At the dock, as usual, …
    3 KB (397 words) - 05:38, 13 November 2007
  • Lexicon:Pratique boat
    <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">pratique boat</td>
    2 KB (208 words) - 13:50, 13 November 2007
  • HMS Hermione
    …nace, the first [[lieutenant]] led the launch, the [[carpenter]] the jolly boat. These three boats were to board, cut the bower cable, and two men to proc…
    4 KB (630 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2010
  • Book Covers
    …he ship and clear of the side that will come alongside the entry port. The boat's crew is very nicely turned out with matching outfits and black kerchiefs…
    7 KB (1220 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2010
  • William Babbington
    …an accident, resulting in Aubrey, Babbington, and others adrift in a small boat in the South Atlantic. They were rescued by ''[[HMS Java]]'' in time to t…
    5 KB (699 words) - 15:48, 2 May 2010
  • Horatio Nelson
    …July 1797, Nelson was hit in the right arm by a musketball while leading a boat attack. Most of the right arm had to be amputated. Although Nelson return…
    7 KB (1202 words) - 22:38, 30 January 2009
  • Saturn
    …War]]'', Aubrey, Maturin, and Diana Villiers escape from Boston in a small boat to the [[HMS Shannon|Shanon]]. Aubrey and Maturin have argued and Aubrey c… … As he went he noticed a dim star or two in the zenith and by the time the boat rejoined , with Bonden's report [...] there was a fine sprinkling of them,…
    8 KB (1285 words) - 09:31, 24 November 2010
  • Catalonia
    …of small vessels for ''[[HMS Sophie]]'' to take. A regular coastal trading boat could carry the equivalent of 5 to 10 oxcarts and with a local, knowledgea…
    13 KB (2168 words) - 09:33, 24 November 2010
  • Waakzaamheid
    …f the 6th day, the Waakzaamheid attempts to take the Leopard by a surprise boat attack. It is thwarted when the Leopard cuts up the boats “ most dreadf… …orton p.1779</ref> It is possible that the Leopard’s destruction of the boat attack brought about the Dutch captain’s murderous intent.
    5 KB (864 words) - 02:39, 16 August 2009

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