Definition of Whaleboat. Meaning of Whaleboat. Synonyms of Whaleboat

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Definition of Whaleboat

Whaleboat
Whaleboat Whale"boat`, n. (Naut.) A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.

Meaning of Whaleboat from wikipedia

- different purpose. Some whaleboats were used from whaling ships. Other whaleboats would operate from the s****. Later whaleboats usually could operate under...
- The Whaleboat War was a series of actions fought by American privateers in the aftermath of the British victory Battle of Long Island and in the context...
- Merwez Whaleboat is an Australian actress. Whaleboat, the eldest daughter of Donald (a pastor and teacher) and Dulcie Whaleboat is a Torres Strait Islander...
- of South America, the 20-man crew was forced to make for land in three whaleboats with what food and water they could salvage from the wreck. After a month...
- The Whaleboat House (originally published with the title Amagansett) is a 2004 crime novel by British writer Mark Mills. It is set shortly after the Second...
- (and back).(Chilean ships can use Paso Aguirre) It was formerly known as Whaleboat Sound, as in US Hydrographic Office, South America Pilot, (1916). Fjords...
- Whaleboat Island Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located just southeast of Ruxton Island, to the southeast of...
- founder of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich James Caird (boat), a whaleboat named after the jute baron, used by Sir Ernest Shackleton Caird (surname)...
- A Nantucket sleighride is the dragging of a whaleboat by a harpooned whale while whaling. It is an archaic term from the early days of open-boat whaling...
- operating as an amphibious raiding force out of New York City during the Whaleboat War. It was raised in 1781 and disbanded after the British evacuation...