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  • Like the smallcraft, they could position themselves for right of way over warships.

    On Yankee Station Nichols, Tillman 1988

  • There was to be no cutting of fishing nets, no swamping smallcraft by passing too close.

    On Yankee Station Nichols, Tillman 1988

  • The communists inevitably conducted such operations at night, and it was impossible to identify the barges from among the thousands of smallcraft plying the coastal waterways.

    On Yankee Station Nichols, Tillman 1988

  • Our task force usually operated about 150 miles offshore, but the gulf was plied by thousands of smallcraft. mostly fishing boats and junks.

    On Yankee Station Nichols, Tillman 1988

  • From where she stood inside the hangar entryway, she could see eight smallcraft, the largest of which was an ancient corvette.

    The Silent Warrior Modesitt, L. E. 1987

  • Before he could do this, however, he had to master smallcraft sailing, and the Navy kept some nineteen two-man boats in the Severn River, where he learned to handle sails, cast off ropes and dock his little yacht, as he and Penny called it.

    Space Michener, James 1982

  • It is not OK to disregard the smallcraft instructors and go over the side "with style"

    Skippy's List 2008

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