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    different purpose. Some whaleboats were used from whaling ships. Other whaleboats would operate from the shore. Later whaleboats usually could operate under...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Merwez Whaleboat is an Australian actress. Whaleboat, the eldest daughter of Donald (a pastor and teacher) and Dulcie Whaleboat is a Torres Strait Islander...
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  • 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...
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  • Whaleboat Island Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located just southeast of Ruxton Island, to the southeast of...
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  • founder of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich James Caird (boat), a whaleboat named after the jute baron, used by Sir Ernest Shackleton Caird (surname)...
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  • 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...
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  • ninety degrees.: 38–40  Two of the ship’s whaleboats were lost and another was damaged, leaving two usable whaleboats.: 41–42  The knockdown was caused in...
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    (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...
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    attempt to cross the Blue Mountains. In 1797, without Flinders, in an open whaleboat with a crew of six, Bass sailed to Cape Howe, the farthest point of south-eastern...
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  • on his face. "Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whaleboat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited...
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  • page Waka Wakeboard boat Walkaround Water ambulance Water taxi Weidling Whaleboat Wherry Top of page Xebec Top of page Yacht Yawl Yoal Top of page Zille...
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  • Pacific on 20 November 1820 after being struck by a sperm whale. Their whaleboat was separated on the open sea from their fellow crewmen on 28 January...
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    the Second Continental Congress at this time. In what was known as the Whaleboat War, American privateers mainly from New Jersey, Brooklyn, and Connecticut...
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  • 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...
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  • Mills's first novel was Amagansett, later reissued under the title The Whaleboat House and published in 2004. This won him the award for Best Crime Novel...
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    closest neighbours and the White Heather was often used to tow whales and whaleboats back to the whaling station after a kill. Old Tom had earlier forced a...
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  • IATA airport code "MWB" In whaling, it may refer to a Marine Whaleboat or a Motor Whaleboat In mechanics, it may refer to Medium-wheelbase or Mid-wheelbase...
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  • whaleship that in 1821 rescued the captain and another crewman from a whaleboat of the sunken Essex whaleship Dauphin Technology, a defunct American manufacturer...
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    Self-righting (P&S) 29-foot 1in x 6-foot 6in Whaleboat, built by J. Atkinson, costing £392. 30-foot x 7-foot 3in Whaleboat, built by Thames Ironworks, costing...
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  • Memory Island Nitinat River Spectacle Lake Wakes Cove West Shawnigan Lake Whaleboat Island Marine East Kootenay RD Akamina-Kishinena Bugaboo Columbia Lake...
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    near Setauket and take them across Long Island Sound with his rotating whaleboat crews to Tallmadge at Fairfield, Connecticut. Tallmadge would then take...
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    the Murrumbidgee, and continued downstream along the Murray in their whaleboat. Boundary Bend Post Office opened on 6 April 1923. For many years, there...
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    were still active and the area was under sporadic mortar fire. When his whaleboat grounded in knee-deep water, MacArthur requested a landing craft, but...
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  • expert boatmen and hunters, and the cooperation of several boats. The whaleboat captain, the umialik, is still a prominent position in Arctic communities...
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    Hogan, Michael Harrington, Thomas Hassett, and Robert Cranston, boarded a whaleboat O'Reilly had dispatched, were taken aboard Catalpa, and escaped to New...
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    The orca named Old Tom swims alongside a whaleboat, flanking a whale calf. The boat is being towed by a harpooned whale (not visible here), near Eden...
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  • Dockyard, Portsmouth, United Kingdom James Caird 1912 United Kingdom Whaleboat Dulwich College, London, United Kingdom RNLB Jesse Lumb 1939 United Kingdom...
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    close to either of them. When a supply ship arrives, it is emptied by whaleboats towed by launches, five tonnes at a time. A mobile crane picks up the...
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