pinnaces

"pinnaces," or by whatever names the custom of the times attached to the different attendants of vessels of war.

The Pilot James Fenimore Cooper 1820

On July 20, the English sailed up to Quebec in three vessels, a flyboat and two pinnaces, with twenty-two guns and 150 men.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Kirke informed Champlain that he had seized the post at Miscou Island and had taken all the French pinnaces and shallops on that coast, as well as those at Tadoussac.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

On July 20, the English sailed up to Quebec in three vessels, a flyboat and two pinnaces, with twenty-two guns and 150 men.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

He picked a place on a small creek where pinnaces and shallops could land at high tide, with the meadows nearby, a great growth of trees, and an abundance of snow geese.52

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

He picked a place on a small creek where pinnaces and shallops could land at high tide, with the meadows nearby, a great growth of trees, and an abundance of snow geese.52

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Kirke informed Champlain that he had seized the post at Miscou Island and had taken all the French pinnaces and shallops on that coast, as well as those at Tadoussac.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

A few pinnaces are still sent onward to watch their course: and the English fleet, caught in the same storms which scattered the Spaniards, “with great danger and industry reached Harwich port, and there provide themselves of victuals and ammunition,” in case the Spaniards should return; but there is no need for that caution.

Westward Ho! 2007

“One of the pinnaces must weigh at least six hundred pounds.”

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

It is one of Terror's 28-footers — one of the pinnaces.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007