The Seraskier slipped on board of a small craft he was towing astern, reached another ship, and, giving up all hope of victory, fled with her from the fight.
As the sun rose there came one of those sudden gales from the eastward that are still the terror of small craft in the Archipelago.
The reserve, chiefly composed of small craft, was under the command of Murad Dragut of Constantinople.
In small craft an owner is more his own master, and frequently steers and sails his own boat.
It is a coasting voyage in a small craft I am advocating here.
It is this last precaution that makes what otherwise would certainly be a dangerous cruise for a small craft an amusement less risky than are the majority of sports.
Every facility will be afforded towards obtaining teak timber for the construction of small craft, and of such additional tonnage as, upon the improved system, will be undoubtedly required.
Bantam receives its supply from Bányumás, by means of native traders from Pakalúngan visiting that port in small craft.
Another thing is, the waves knock the way out of a small craft, while the weight of a big one takes her through them without feeling it.
I have seen a man, who had been accustomed to knock about all his life in small craft, as sick as a dog on board a frigate, and I have seen the first lieutenant of a man-of-war knocked right over while lying off a bar on boat service.
No, sir, we don't take no account of them in small craft, and there is a fathom and a half of water over them even in spring-tides.
In addition to this obstacle, the enemy advancing by water upon the fort would have to meet the American flotilla, which, though composed of small craft only, was large enough to prove very annoying to an enemy.
Some of these are navigable for two or three leagues from their mouths for small craft.
He was met in the neighborhood of San Cristobal by a numerous fleet of small craft, which had the advantage over the unwieldy Spanish ships in that they could maneuver with greater rapidity and precision.
The fleet now seen approaching numbered a hundred and sixty large ships, besides a great number of small craft, conveying a force variously estimated at from seventy to a hundred thousand men.
We were but a small craft, and it was vain to attempt resistance.
The Germans had always built their small craft rapidly, although their heavy ships were longer in construction than our own.
And here it is interesting to compare the time occupied in the production of small craft in Great Britain and in Germany during the war.
Small craft--small craft, to harry and to flout 'em!
He was, therefore, much more complaisant than dockyard officials generally are to the demands made upon them by young lieutenants in command of small craft.
I have always observed that a captain of a man-of-war or of a frigate is sure to be down on small craft, if he gets a chance.
Now the exit of small craft equipped for torpedo attack is a much more serious threat to the blockader than the exit of small craft, not so equipped, was in the old days of close blockade.
My long service in the cutter made me perfectly at home; but Dicky Sharpe, who had never been in a small craft in his life, was very soon done up.
His friends got him the appointment because it was considered better that he should see some service in a small craft, with a smart officer, which our commander was said to be; while I joined because I was not likely to get a better.
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