This ground is visited principally by small boats, the greater part of the catch being taken by gill nets, although trawls and hand lines also are used here.
This ground is much resorted to bysmall boats and in winter by some of the larger vessels of the vicinity.
Off in the direction that the projectile was headed was a fleet of fishermen in small boats, tending to their nets, which were scattered over an area of a quarter of a mile, standing almost end to end.
First he would wig-wag a message to the fleet of small boats; then they would repeat it back to him as fast as they were able to operate the flags.
I thought you were pretty handy about small boats.
The two steamers whistled shrilly, as, with a procession of small boats in tow, they started out over the course.
Taking Hanno and Hannibal with me, I went on shore in one of my small boats, for the purpose of paying a visit to the governor in command of the little garrison that occupied the fortress.
As in all Greek ports, the landing is to be accomplished only by small boats, which are manned by watermen having no connection at all with the steamship companies.
Passengers were carried through the surf by natives to small boats, and rowed off to the Lewis.
Going ashore in small boats, we found a railroad, under the management of General J.
Her crew managed to get off in small boats, but all of their personal belongings were lost.
Small boats in the neighborhood of the disaster hurried to the scene and rescued those whom they could reach in the water and brought them to Queenstown.
She then settled, her crew and the men from the Indian City reaching St. Mary's in small boats.
On the 3d they were put on shore in small boats, which were insufficient in number, and made the landing slow and laborious.
The column now rested for two and a half hours while the remainder of the troops were debarking, for the landing-place was contracted, and the regiments on the Boston had to be put ashore in small boats.
Here, with a prodigious rattling of lowered sails and anchor chains, the crews plunge over the rolling waves, pontooning a bridge of small boats ashore.
The fishings are prosecuted on the coasts in small boats in spring and summer, but the best of the men are employed out of the islands, and the fishings are now very unimportant.
Any of the tenants who are fishing in small boats on the coast deliver all their fish to us still.
At other towns on the way we ran well up into the fields, and landed passengers or freight on stray sand-spits, or hillocks, from which they could get off again on the other side by small boats.
Arriving at the wharf, he is shown where his steamer lies, midway in the harbor; whether it be at anchor, or hoisted on a raft of small boats, he is at first at a loss to see.
Besides the sinking of the first two freight vessels, which had been reported to the Navy Department by survivors who had reached shore in small boats, other vessels had been sent to the bottom.
She was being abandoned by her crew, who, in small boats, some even swimming, were hurrying to the side of the Bismarck, where they were lifted aboard.
The landing parties re-embarked in the manner which they had left their ships--climbing to the deck of the Vindictive and then proceeding to their deck of the Vindictive and then proceeding to their various ships by small boats.
Because he proposed setting my passengers and crew adrift in small boats, without water or provisions, before sinking my ship.
How to Make a Sail For the sails of small boats there is no better material than unbleached twilled cotton sheeting.
The Balance Lug comes as near the square sail of a ship as any canvas used on small boats, but you can see, by referring to the diagram, Fig.
The Spanish sailors could be seen swarming out of the burning ship and into the small boats.
This lighted up the entire breadth of the channel for half a mile inside of the entrance so brilliantly that the movement of small boats could be detected.
In five minutes the sea was alive with flotillas of small boats, headed by launches, speeding for the Baiquiri dock.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small boats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
