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skiff skiff
skiff, in maritime terms a ship's working boat during the days of sail. It was usually a small clinker-built boat pulling one or two pairs of oars, used for small errands around a ship when it was in harbour. They should not be confused with the light pleasure craft used on rivers and inland... Read more
ship ship
ship large craft in which persons and goods may be conveyed on water. In the U.S. Navy the term boat refers to any vessel that is small enough to be hoisted aboard a ship, and ship is used for any larger vessel; all submarines, no matter what size, are designated as boats, and ship-sized... Read more
seamanship seamanship
seamanship, in its widest sense, is the whole art of taking a ship from one place to another at sea. It is an amalgam of all the arts of designing a ship and its motive power, whether sail, steam propulsion, or other means, of working it when at sea, and in harbour, and the science of navigation.... Read more
Robert Smalls Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls (1839-1915) Source A FRICAN AMERICAN SAILOR The Escape.While their white officers slept peacefully in Charleston, the slave crew aboard the Confederate gunboat Plantermade a daring run for Northern vessels anchored off the coast of... Read more
jolly-boat jolly-boat
jolly-boat, possibly from the Dutch and German Jolle, Swedish jol, a small bark or boat, though this may be the derivation of the English yawl. It is more likely to be a perversion of gellywatte, a small ship's boat of the 18th and 19th centuries, which was used for a variety of purposes such as... Read more
bumboat bumboat
bumboat, a small boat used for carrying vegetables, fruit, and provisions to ships lying in harbour. The term possibly derives from the Dutch boomboat, a broad-beamed fishing boat, but also possibly from bumbay, an old Suffolk word meaning quagmire. The word first appears in England in the by-laws... Read more
longboat longboat
longboat, the largest boat carried on board ships in the 18th century. It was carvel built with a full bow and high sides, and furnished with a mast and sails. A ship's gun could also be mounted in the bows. Its principal uses on board were to transport heavy stores to and from the ship and to take... Read more
cuddy cuddy
cuddy, originally a cabin in the after part of a sailing ship for the captain and his passengers, which was positioned under the poop deck. The term is also sometimes used to denote a small cabin on board a boat, or yacht, or very occasionally a small cookhouse on board, though caboose was a more... Read more
Collision Collision
COLLISION The violent contact of one vehicle—such as an automobile, ship, or boat<... Read more
deviation deviation
deviation, an error of a magnetic compass caused by the ship's own residual magnetism. If a ship had no residual magnetism, the needle of the magnetic compass would point directly along the earth's magnetic meridian, but as every modern ship has metal fittings which affect the compass, there is... Read more

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