pinnace

• “An 'I'd ha' done it, too, only the pinnace from the flagship was just comin 'alongside.”

  A Winner of the Victoria Cross

• “The name pinnace was applied to vessels having a wide range in tonnage, etc., from a craft of hardly more than ten or fifteen tons to one of sixty or eighty.”

  The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete

• “Thither we went in a fine boat they call a pinnace, with six oars; his servants, and horses, and baggage going in the ferry-boat.”

  The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

• “What shall we call the pinnace when she is launched, Mistress White? ”

  Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims

• “The _Mary_ -- for so Fritz now called the pinnace -- had been ten days at sea, the wind had died away, and for some time scarcely a zephyr had ruffled the surface of the water, the sails were lazily flapping against the mast, and but for the currents, the voyagers would have been almost stationary.”

  Willis the Pilot

• “The pinnace was a big, roomy, and rather heavy boat, pulling ten oars, double banked, and mounting a nine-pounder gun in her bows.”

  The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast

• “That our pinnace was a vessel able to withstand such waves as would be met with in the ocean, can be believed when you remember that she was one half the size of the Goodspeed, which we counted a ship.”

  Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony

• “calculating," "reckoning," and inexhaustible curiosity of the crew; but their admiration of the ship, her guns, her stores, and her tackle, were boundless; they felt that their pinnace was a mere toy in comparison.”

  Willis the Pilot

• “I would not have meddled with this subject if R. G., getting on a wrong scent, had not arrived at the very extraordinary conclusion that Bramhall meant a "pinnace," and an "offensive composition well known to sailors!”

  Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

• “In the mean time, our (hip's company were ftrangcly divid - ed in their opinion: fome were very pofuive, that ic was the Marquis come out of port; and, to confirm this, they affcrtcd, that the fail had no fore top-maft; upon which we recalled the pinnace, put a cap aboard her for the Marquis, and then fent her away again; and by this time it was noon.”

  Internet Archive: A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America

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