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pinnace [ˈpɪnɪs] N NAUT

pinnace

szalupa f

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The ships were equipped with several boats, including a pair of picket boats, a launch, a pinnace, two cutters, two yawls, and two dinghies. en.wikipedia.org

Open square-sterned pulling boats were also called pinnaces at least as early as 1626. en.wikipedia.org

Pinnace was more of a use than a type name, for almost any vessel could have been a pinnace or tender to a larger one. en.wikipedia.org

He held back his large ships to avoid damage, and used the pinnaces to attack the forts. en.wikipedia.org

A pinnace would ferry passengers and mail, communicate between vessels, scout to sound anchorages, convey water and provisions, or carry armed sailors for cutting-out expeditions. en.wikipedia.org

I wanted to put out a pinnace to reconnoitre but the wind was blowing so fiercely that it would have been dangerous. en.wikipedia.org

The main mast on many pinnaces would have been large enough to carry a small topsail. en.wikipedia.org

With great difficulty, the pinnace was rescued and brought ashore where it took the ship's carpenters three days to repair. en.wikipedia.org

The journeys consist of sailing in the air on an airship and in water on a boat, or pinnace. en.wikipedia.org

This appears to have originally been placed at the beginning of the third roll, among the other pinnaces and rowbarges, but was moved to achieve more equal lengths. en.wikipedia.org

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