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    "The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1898, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving...
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    waited as the drift carried them further north, towards open water. They had managed to salvage the three boats, which Shackleton had named after the principal...
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    Whaleboat (redirect from Open-boat whaling)
    A whaleboat is a type of open boat that was used for catching whales, or a boat of similar design that retained the name when used for a different purpose...
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    In the excerpt from Poetics of Relation, "The Open Boat", Glissant's imagery was particularly compelling when describing the slave experience and the linkage...
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    Sailboat (redirect from Sail boat)
    sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship. Distinctions in what constitutes a sailing boat and ship...
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    along with 31 of Pandora's crew. The survivors, including the ten remaining prisoners, then embarked on an open-boat journey that largely followed Bligh's...
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    simple lines. For centuries, the dory has been used as a traditional fishing boat, both in coastal waters and in the open sea. First recorded in 1700-10...
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    nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) to safety in the open boat, and ultimately back to England. The mutineers divided—most settled on Tahiti, where they...
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    Flensing (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    the blubber and the head, leaving the rest of the carcass to polar bears and sea birds. In Japan the whole carcass was utilized. During the open-boat...
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    boat. The wide-range of usage of the name extends from utilitarian craft through to pleasure boats built to a very high standard. In naval use, the launch...
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    Stephen Crane (category The Pennington School alumni)
    vessel, the SS Commodore, sank off the coast of Florida, leaving him adrift for 30 hours in a dinghy. Crane described the ordeal in "The Open Boat". During...
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    any small clinker-built, open-stem, general-purpose boat. In Canada, the term punt refers to any small, flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, regardless...
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    were clinker-built open boats which were fitted for propulsion by both oar and sail. They were more optimised for sailing than the barges and pinnaces...
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    A dive boat is a boat that recreational divers or professional scuba divers use to reach a dive site which they could not conveniently reach by swimming...
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  • open-weight eights on the River Thames in London, England. It is also known as the University Boat Race and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. The men's...
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    A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive...
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  • The Boat is a 2018 Maltese-British thriller drama film directed by Winston Azzopardi and written by Joe Azzopardi and Winston Azzopardi. Joe Azzopardi...
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  • Oiler (redirect from The Oilers)
    (Transformers), a fictional Transformers character The Oiler, a character in an 1897 short story "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane Slang for diesel engine Euler...
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  • underwater travel The members of a crew in the sport of rowing Brownsea Open Air Theatre, Dorset, England BOAT, an American indie rock band "Boat" (song), by...
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    U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicized version of the German word...
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  • shore in shark-filled waters when the crew of their boat accidentally leaves them behind. The film is loosely based on the true story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan...
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    Lionel Greenstreet (category Personnel of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition)
    the expedition. He accompanied his captain, Frank Worsley, in the Dudley Docker during the eight-day ordeal that marked the progress of the open-boat...
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    Island. Shackleton and five other members of the group then made an 800-mile (1,300 km) open-boat journey in the James Caird, and were able to reach South...
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    Boathouse (redirect from Boat house)
    typically located on open water, such as on a river. Often the boats stored are rowing boats. Other boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored...
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    Pontoon bridge (redirect from Boat bridge)
    boats, limiting the maximum load to the total and point buoyancy of the pontoons or boats. The supporting boats or floats can be open or closed, temporary...
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    A Drift Boat is an evolution of the open-water dory, converted for use in rivers. The design is characterized by a wide, flat bottom, flared sides, a...
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    The loss of the ship Essex sunk by a whale and the ordeal of the crew in open boats. Nantucket: Nantucket Historical Association. p. 7. "Guide to the...
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    Fishing vessel (redirect from Fishing boat)
    vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish and other valuable nektonic aquatic animals (e.g. shrimps/prawns, krills, coleoids, etc.) in the sea, lake or...
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    Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels (such...
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  • cuts to Amy standing on the boat in the sun, looking around appearing heartbroken. Dan is shown lying face down on the boat with a towel covering his...
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