quarterboat

Then I heard the machinery clank and bang loudly, and each side of the bridge rose at forty-five-degree angles into the air and what I thought was a huge two-deck quarterboat slid through the open space and came down the bayou toward me, a hissing sound rising from its stern.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

Then I heard the machinery clank and bang loudly, and each side of the bridge rose at forty-five-degree angles into the air and what I thought was a huge two-deck quarterboat slid through the open space and came down the bayou toward me, a hissing sound rising from its stern.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

Then I heard the machinery clank and bang loudly, and each side of the bridge rose at forty-five-degree angles into the air and what I thought was a huge two-deck quarterboat slid through the open space and came down the bayou toward me, a hissing sound rising from its stern.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

Then I heard the machinery clank and bang loudly, and each side of the bridge rose at forty-five-degree angles into the air and what I thought was a huge two-deck quarterboat slid through the open space and came down the bayou toward me, a hissing sound rising from its stern.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

I sent him and another hand off in the quarterboat, and Jones swam to the lighter.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

Roberts that, so anxious was he to maintain the smart appearance of the ship, he would, whenever she ran into a calm, have the quarterboat lowered and manned, in order that he might pull round his vessel and assure himself that her masts were all accurately stayed to precisely the same angle of rake; and woe betide the unhappy boatswain if there seemed to be the slightest occasion for fault-finding.

The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa Harry Collingwood 1886

So in the end the small quarterboat was got over the side away from the village, and we took our place.

A Sea Queen's Sailing 1884

Next instant he sprang to the falls of the larboard quarterboat.

The World of Ice 1859

Once more upon their deck, the hand-to-hand battle was short, bloody and decisive, until towards its close, Captain Bramble found himself driven into the forecastle with a number of his followers, and at the same moment saw the mate of the "Sea Witch," with those of his people that were left alive hastening to embark in a quarterboat, and pull away from the vessel's side with great speed.

The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

Meantime the quarterboat was lowered and several men got into her, but their painter was too short, and before they had got their oars into her she broke adrift and dropped astern.

Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors William Henry Giles Kingston 1847