The dinghywas quite seaworthy; the damage done to the ship's boats during the bombardment from the "Dresden" had been repaired upon the voyage.
Jimmy could not be in the dinghy, for he had caught sight of the boy on the main-deck after the dinghy had been launched.
As for Russell, he knows me well enough, or he was never a ship's carpenter that cut off in a dinghy with the ship's cook and the cook's mate.
As chance had it, both this man and his mate lived at Truro, and ten minutes after the dinghy had been beached, Rudolf Stork was left to his own resources, with a free hand to go whithersoever he wished.
This was a small dinghy used for harbour work, which could neither carry all who were on board nor live for two minutes in such a sea without being swamped.
An ancient mariner in a billycock hat at her wheel stared up open-mouthed at the destroyer's bridge, and then, yelling like a maniac, darted aft and hauled in on the painter of the dinghy towing astern.
The Mariner steamed three miles along the coast to Baymouth, and here the first lieutenant was landed in the dinghy to make inquiries.
Lieutenant--in charge of the trawlers--bobbed alongside in a trawler's dinghy and scrambled on board.
When he stepped into his dinghy he glanced up at the wharf towering twenty feet above his head.
He recollected that he had left the Blanco's dinghy hauled up on the beach on the tip of Point Old.
The trolling boats were packed about the Blanco so close that MacRae left his dinghy on the outer fringe and walked across their decks to the deck of his own vessel.
Then he changed his mind, and taking his own dinghy rowed ashore.
He laid hold of the Blanco's dinghy and drew it high to absolute safety, then stood a minute gazing seaward, looking down on the Rock.
The power yacht, it seemed, had not so much as a dinghy aboard.
Anchoring, at first temporarily, at the mouth, in 5 fathoms, the dinghy went off to sound, and ascertain whether we might enter.
The dinghy grounded often, and we were unable to reach firm land anywhere, so thick was the belt of mangroves.
Early in our visit, we one morning met with a mishap when landing in our stumpy dinghy through some more than usually heavy surf.
The cook and boy, smartly attired in black oiled calico, went off in the dinghy to visit their compatriots.
As White was busy moving the galley stove into the cabin, and making other preparations for their coming struggle against Arctic cold, Cabot rowed himself ashore and left the dinghy on the beach.
A second glance disclosed the dinghy half way to the beach, while in her stern, sculling her swiftly along with practised hand, stood the wooden-headed young savage who didn't know how to manage a boat.
Of course the new-comers had known as soon as they discovered the dinghy that at least one of the schooner's defenders was on shore, and had made their arrangements accordingly.
After a hearty meal they got the dinghy overboard and started on a tour of exploration.
The boy, however, expressed his willingness to visit the schooner by entering the dinghy and seating himself in its stern.
And while you are settling matters with the old sneak, I'll get the dinghy ready, and fetch up the bottle of brandy I promised that jolly old Turk at the coffee-shop.
We had started from Barcelona with our dinghyin tow; afterwards it was too risky to try to get her in, so we let her take her chance of the seas at the end of a comfortable scope of rope.
I don't think I was actually unconscious for more than a few minutes, but when I came to myself the dinghy was driving before the wind into a sheltered cove, two men just keeping her straight with their oars.
And then as they stood leaning upon their guns, the dinghy reached the lugger and was made fast, the mooring rope was cast off and the men began to hoist the first sail, when Drew suddenly uttered a cry of horror.
As he spoke he waved his hand, the dinghy put off from the lugger, and a man rowed to the shore.
Following a devious route, the dinghy reached the cutter from the port side.
Under Peter's powerful strokes thedinghy sped rapidly into the open waters of the Solent.
He twisted the dinghy broadside on, and both Warden and he saw two officers in the uniform of a foreign navy step on to the Sans Souci gangway, where Baumgartner, bare-headed and obsequious of manner, was standing to receive them.
She is moored quite close to my cutter, and my dinghy is not fifty yards distant.
Give me a call when you are let off the chain," said Warden pleasantly to the watchman, as the dinghy curved apart from the yacht's side.
He took her in a dinghy to the Sans Souci, and this slight chance led to the discovery that the yacht was in charge of a shore watchman.
It did not occur to her that the Sans Souci's deck was singularly untenanted, until a gruff voice hailed the occupants of the dinghy from the top of the gangway.
Our opponents had four oars and a light skiff against Peter's two and a dinghy that is broad as it is long.
Peter swung the dinghy about so nimbly that she lost all sense of direction.
Warden, unwilling to arouse distrust in her mind, bade Peter draw the dinghy alongside.
He showed both qualities now by hauling the dinghy alongside and stepping into it.
The Psyche still lay on the sands, and he was rowing the dinghy towards her, when, looking round to direct his course, he thought he caught a glimpse of some one seated on the slope of the dune.
Over tumbled Davy into the dinghy at the Psyche's stern, unloosed the painter, and was rowing for the shore ere the minute was out.
There he landed and left the dinghy in the shelter of the rocks, the fish covered with long broad leaved tangles, climbed the steep cliff, and sought Blue Peter.
The two men rowed in the dinghy down the river to the Aberdeen wharf to make arrangements about Kelpie, whose arrival Malcolm expected the following Monday, then dined together, and after that had a long row up the river.
At his whistle, Davy tumbled into the dinghy like a round ball over the gunwale, and was rowing for the shore ere his whistle had ceased ringing in Malcolm's own ears.
But it only took a moment’s search to assure them that the dinghy was not with them.
Slowly and silently, the boys walked down the gangway to where their dinghy lay like a turtle, unharmed.
As the boys rowed the dinghy back to the float, they felt the first fat drops of rain and they noticed how choppy the still waters of the bay had become.
Let’s row the dinghy in to the dock and see if we can find somebody on shore,” Jerry suggested.
The hot sun made rowing even the light cockleshell of the dinghy unpleasant work.
Getting into the dinghy carefully, so as not to upset its delicate balance, they untied the sloop from the dock.
Turn back, I tell you, or I’ll shoot that dinghy full of holes and sink it right out from under you!
As the boys started to turn the dinghy about, they heard a shout from the man on the pier.
In fact, the tall man who came striding down the path to the float where the boys already had the dinghy headed was carrying a rifle—and, what was more, he looked perfectly ready to use it at any minute!
Relieved and happy, Sandy climbed on board as Jerry tied the dinghyto the stern.
The only thing to do now is to take out thedinghy and start to hunt.
He smiled apologetically, but as Sandy started to climb up from the dinghy to the floating dock, his expression hardened once more.
They transferred the bow line from the dinghy to the mooring and made the sloop fast in its temporary berth.
The sail towered tall and white against the blue sky above him and the water gurgled alongside and in the wake behind where the dinghy bobbed along like a faithful puppy.
They rowed to the floating dock and made the dinghy fast to a cleat.
Then they climbed back on board and tied the dinghybehind them.
Pull that dinghy aboard at once," commanded Geoff; "and one of you can take charge of this prisoner.
Stretching his hand overhead, he caught the rope to which the dinghy was made fast and put his full weight on it.
Then Geoff gripped the rope which had been dangling over the rail, and, putting all his weight on it to test it, swung himself out of the dinghy and clambered up till he could grasp the rail above.
Then Philip went right aft, and, with Geoff's help, came aboard in that direction, the three of them causing the dinghy to sink so low in the water that now and again the stream lapping against the sides splashed over.
And ready," Phil said, "and the dinghy is alongside.
At the same moment Geoff pushed his dinghy from under the stern, and, taking his paddle up, waited for the appearance of the two who had so suddenly been immersed in the water.
There was silence for a while, and then the tread of boots on the deck just above the stern beneath which the dinghy was lying.
Let's get back and down to our dinghy till things quiet down again.
I'll wait till I hear the old boy plump overboard, and have the dinghy already cast loose, and ready to push off into the river.
A minute later they had secured the dinghy to the rope, and the wise Philip made fast the other end of it to a bolt-hole in the rudder, thus keeping their little boat right under the stern of the steamer, where she would remain unseen.
And when a dinghy capsized through trying to sail off the wind in a squall, it was the old man who was quickest at the water's edge with a punt, and first on the spot, although a four-oared boat raced out to the rescue.
Sidenote: UNCLE JAKE ON FOOLS] I saw thedinghy put about and run for shore.
Granfer, however, had in his cottage an old dinghy sail that fits the Moondaisy.
The dinghy must have drifted in a little closer, for I made out behind the shadowy rail one, two, three figures in a row, looming bulkily above my head, as men appear enlarged in mist.
To this very day I am not rid of the absurd impression that, at that particular moment, the dinghy was travelling with us as fast as a cannon-ball.
We gave way with a vigour that seemed to lift the dinghy out of the water.
But an unsteady little dinghy was not the platform for acrobatic exercises, and Castro not exactly the man.
The blunt dinghy foamed past that vision within an oar's length, no more, making straight for the clamour of the fight.
Sheer instinct altered at once the motion of my hand so as to incline the bows of the dinghy away from the shore; but a sort of stupefying amazement seized upon my soul.
The dinghy shot into the shadow of the fishing-smack.
The smack was lying some distance out, and the dinghy was tied to her stern.
I got into his dinghy without further argument, and was rowed across to the smack.
In two minutes the dinghy was at the little plank jetty, and I was in it.
The Viking and the boy shipped their oars, helped me in, tied the dinghy to the stern, hoisted the sail, and we dropped away into the sunset.
The dinghy and the two rowers were to wait at the little landing-stage till such time as we should want them again.
In other words, Otto and she, when off on a fishing and sketching excursion in the dinghy of the wreck, had been caught in a storm and drenched to the skin.
It is my pleasure that you, sir, shall go down to the beach and prepare the dinghy for immediate service.
Indeed, in half an hour he was back, and Eleanor with Zara, Bessie and Dolly, were taken out to the Columbia in two trips of the little dinghy which served as her tender.
Right, sir," said Bates, as he lowered the dinghy and dropped into her.
And thatdinghy only has room for one man with oars.
Accordingly, heaving to, I brought the dinghy alongside, and we got into her.
Then, having brought the dinghy alongside, I made the painter fast, clambered aboard, and we stood out of the bay once more.
The dinghy danced a squashy, splashy jig in the wash of the wake; and, turning in my seat, I followed the James Westoll with my eyes.
There was a small 12-feet dinghy suspended in the rigging, but she was obviously not the boat which the Georges was accustomed to use for running goods.
Even Thames barges were fitted with concealments; in fact there was not a species of craft from a barque to a dinghy that was not thus modified for smuggling.
I think it's much more likely that a shot was hove into the dinghy if they went alongside, and that they were sent to the bottom.
Galley gone, too, and the good old dinghy staved to kindlings.
They pushed off the dinghy and boarded the steamer.
He rang the telegraph, and when the engines stopped he jumped into the dinghy with Walthew and one of the seamen.
He scrambled along the narrow deck, got a few feet up the mast, and the sail came down; then he sprang aft to the helm, and the sloop headed for the steamer, with his dinghy in tow and only the jib set.
There was a clatter in the stokehold as the fires were cleaned, the dinghy crept across the creek, and half-seen men forward hurriedly coiled in a wet rope.
The dinghy was close at hand, lurching up and down, lost from sight at intervals among the combers.
Then he dropped over the rail into the dinghy with Walthew, and as soon as they jumped ashore they started for the plaza on a run.
