- A
smack was a
traditional fishing boat used off the
coast of
Britain and the
Atlantic coast of
America for most of the 19th
century and, in
small numbers...
- A well
smack was a type of
traditional fishing boat in use in the
United Kingdom and then the
Faroe Islands between the late 18th
century and
around 1920...
- and the
smack were used in the
Thames Estuary and off East Anglia,
while trawlers and
drifters were used on the east coast.
Herring fishing started in...
- His Majesty's or HM
Armed Smack Inverlyon was a
fishing smack that was
converted to a Q-ship
during the
First World War. Q-ships
served as
decoys to lure...
- gold. The Bomma, a
coasting motorship,
became the
Cleng Peerson, a
fishing smack. Also, the
distance the gold was
sledded was not
twelve miles but actually...
-
Excelsior is an
authentically restored fishing smack of the
Lowestoft fishing fleet and a
member of the
National Historic Fleet. She was
built by John...
- Vancouver, BC:
Alexander Nicholls Press. p. 3. ISBN 0-920034-08-X. "
Fishing Smack Trawling Machinery". The Engineer: 453. 15 Jun 1883. "Chain Messengers"...
- Excelsior,
ultralight aircraft Excelsior (
smack), the last
surviving fishing smack of the
Lowestoft fishing fleet and a
member of the
National Historic...
-
example of this is the
Whitstable yawl, a
decked gaff-cutter-rigged
fishing smack that
dredged for oysters. The
etymology of "yawl" is obscure, especially...
- brig
built in 1812 that
served as a
tender to Poictiers. The
American fishing smack Yankee used a
stratagem to
capture Eagle on 4 July 1812. HMS Eagle (1814)...
