A motor whaleboat drew up to the landing stage, and two husky frogmen handed up a suited figure.
Mr Bowles was appointed to the command of the pinnace, and Mr Dashwood was ordered to take charge of the whaleboat gig, with six hands as his crew.
The whaleboat gig, the smartest boat of the fleet, was manned, as already stated, by Mr Dashwood and six picked hands; she was to act as tender to the launch.
George Bass's whaleboat survey of the coast to the southward.
Here, at Disaster Bay, Stokes was sent in command of the whaleboat and yawl, to inspect the coast ahead, whilst the survey of the bay proceeded.
A sudden volley from the bush, his whaleboat caught in a swarming rush of blacks, his crew disabled or deserting, and himself alone battling it out single-handed with the niggers at the last.
But at this juncture Doc Wyndham, calling their attention to the fact that a whaleboat had already put away from the Cora, suggested that they wait and learn just how things stood before starting off gunning.
But it was still as in a dream that I became aware of an erratically rowed whaleboat pulling away from the Death Ship and making for the beach.
But before I turned to on what could have hardly proved other than a hopeless task, the sound of oars and voices reached my ears, and presently the bow of a hard-pulled whaleboat came pushing up out of the darkness.
The whaleboat and the number two cutter were the only boats now left to the expedition.
The sledge bearing thewhaleboat topped the hummock.
All of the eighteen dogs had been harnessed to the number two sledge, that carried the whaleboat and the major part of the provisions, and every man of the party, Bennett included, was straining at the haul-ropes with the dogs.
Shaping their course to landward once more, the boats kept company, and by the middle of the afternoon Bennett and the crew of the whaleboat successfully landed upon a bleak, desolate, and wind-scourged coast.
The lashings were taken off, and the loads, including the great, cumbersome whaleboat itself, carried over the hummock by hand.
By eleven o'clock at night the gale had increased to such an extent and the sea had begun to build so high that it was a question whether or not the whaleboat would ride the storm.
Hardly had the arrangement been made, when a whaleboat rowed by Marquesans followed in the wake of the canoe, and a tall, rangy Frenchman climbed aboard the Morning Star.
The whaleboat slid up to a rocky ledge, and my luggage and I were put ashore.
While our whaleboat shot across the Bordelaise Channel pursued by a brisk breeze, Ugh!
L'Hermier des Plantes when it was conveyed to him that this solitary whaleboat had brought a solitary white to welcome him to his seat of government.
With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach.
The Valetta led, thewhaleboat towing her manned by captured Fuatino men.
Captain Ward sailed in the Wonder for the Santa Cruz Islands; and Grief, borrowing a whaleboat and a crew of black prisoners from the British Resident, crossed the channel to Guadalcanar, to examine the grass lands back of Penduffryn.
The Fuatino men who had been towing in the whaleboat had cast off the line, dashed back through the passage, and were rowing wildly for the south shore.
A whaleboat came alongside, and a man climbed over the rail.
I want you to drop me in a whaleboat as you go by.
Captain Jensen stood up in the sternsheets of hiswhaleboat and denied the existence of pants on his schooner.
IV The whaleboat laid alongside the small, coral-stone landing-pier, and David Grief and his mate stepped ashore.
As the schooner went into the wind and backed her jib and staysail the whaleboat was swung out.
With a whaleboat towing for steerage and as a precaution against back-draughts from the cliff, and taking advantage of a fan of breeze, he shook the Rattler full into it and glided by the big coral patch without warping.
In the late afternoon of the second day Grief ordered a whaleboat into the water.
As the whaleboat came beneath, Mauriri shook his head.
At such glimpses an inarticulate murmur ran through our midst, but for the most part we, who were only watching, were silent till the whaleboat was fairly alongside of the object of her gallant expedition.
He had come down, and was where the whaleboat was hanging, which, I learned, was fitted like a lifeboat, and the crew were crowding round him.
I was vexed, as I would have given anything to have helped to welcome the whaleboat back.
The cruiser was then driven away by a more powerful German ship, and the crew of the whaleboat found themselves left in the enemy’s waters without arms, food, or navigating instruments.
I then weathered the island, and our people seeing me, came off with a whaleboat and towed me in.
During the mêlée, an English cruiser lowered a whaleboat that picked up several survivors of a sunken German vessel.
In the year 1777 I made an attempt from a whaleboat against the Cerberus frigate, then lying at anchor between Connecticut River and New London, by drawing a machine against her side by means of a line.
The binnacle from the whaleboat had been brought into the pilot-house, and Christy compared it with the compass in the Teaser's apparatus, after Dave had lighted it.
Christy selected a large whaleboat for the service in which he was to be employed, and he had his own reasons for the choice he made.
East by south, sir," replied Beeks, as he put the whaleboat on the required course.
Very well, call the signalman fromwhaleboat number two.
All at once there was a loud splash from whaleboatnumber two, the boat lurched heavily, the weight of the mine on the opposite side pulling it over.
The officer in charge of the whaleboat grumbled at being thus obliged to turn back and travel some distance to reach the wherry.
Dan landed across one of the seats in the whaleboat with his injured hand doubled under him.
Sam Hickey sat in the whaleboat irritated because he had had little or nothing to do.
They are saying that whaleboat number two is off its course, sir.
They have ordered that the signalman from the whaleboat number two remain here in the wherry, sir.
A Whaleboat was hoisted out, and a Person sent in it to go aboard the Snow, and know where she was from, and to let the Captain know they would be glad to see him aboard the Schooner.
He eagerly accepted the Captain's offer, and the next morning the crew of the king's whaleboat found she had disappeared; then followed the strange series of events by which Barney and his mate got on board the ship and evaded pursuit.
I forgot my instructions, and my crew seemed equally excited at the Captain's danger, for, without being told, they ran the whaleboat ashore and we all jumped out.
When the two boats were within three miles of the ship, they noticed the fore and aft sail of the king's whaleboat showing up now and then as she rose and sunk again in the heavy swell, and noticed that she was also heading to meet the ship.
Then after putting the brig in a state of defence, and giving the command to the Fiji half-caste, Bill, telling him also to shoot a certain native if he saw him come alongside, Hayston had the longboat and whaleboat lowered.
She can sail a cutter with any man on the island, and steer a whaleboat besides.
Standing up in the boat, I could distinguish a whaleboat under a fore and aft sail close to her.
The wind had freshened during the afternoon, and the rollers on the beach lifted the whaleboat as she came up to the landing rather higher than the ladies fancied.
When the whaleboatlowered her sail and ran alongside, I saw that she was the king's new boat, and contained but two men.
We then saw a whaleboat coming round the point with a lug sail.
The Samoan started with the orthodox whaleboat and kept building larger and larger until the limit of practical construction was reached.
Between nine and ten of the same morning, the schooner lay-to off Hookena and a whaleboat came ashore.
At length the scene was over; the performers rose; the lepers and the mother were helped in silence to their places; the whaleboat was urged between the reefs into a bursting surge, and swung next moment without on the smooth swell.
We didn't feel too much to hum after we lost our wages, and we done took a whaleboat and came ashore here, with only one bottle of whiskey atween us.
We done stole a whaleboat and comed ashore," replied Christy, enlarging upon the story he had told the bivouackers.
The whaleboat was borne to a spot indicated by the lieutenant, and left as it had been taken from the surf.
French was ordered to leave Captain Sullendine, Bokes, and Sopsy at the shore where the whaleboat had made a landing, as soon as it was dark.
The captain commanded the longboat, the second mate and Devereux had a whaleboat apiece.
As night closed in, he realized the worst; he and the whaleboat were being blown to sea.
Indeed, she had once heard her father and Sralik talking about going there in the whaleboat to sell turtle-shell to the white traders there.
With a curse Chaplin rushed to the wheel, and in double-quick time the whaleboatwas lowered and search was made.
On hearing the horrid yells of the savages, the whaleboat was sent with ten men, who, with great exertions, saved two more of the crew.
He was quite nettled, and angrily asked me if I thought he could not take a whaleboat through a bit of surf as well as either Marama or myself.
He had not a single canoe he could spare, except very small ones, which would be useless in such weather, whereas my whaleboat would make nothing of it.
They were old acquaintances of our captain and myself, and as they came alongside in their smart whaleboat and Vanâki saw their faces, he gave a weird yell of delight, and rubbed noses with them the moment they stepped on deck.
When the French were at Port Jackson in 1802, the whaleboat was lying beached on the foreshore, and was preserved, says Peron, with a kind of "religious respect.
Shortly after dawn on January 18th the prow of the whaleboat was "very reluctantly" turned ocean-wards for the home journey.
The voyage in the whaleboat had not proved the strait.
The crew of the whaleboatgave them such articles of clothing as they could spare.
It has been stated that the name was given to commemorate William Wilson, one of the whaleboat crew, who "jumped ashore first.
Le Naturaliste spent some time in Westernport, making a survey of it, and discovering the second island, which Bass had missed on his whaleboat cruise.
The whaleboatkept steadily on in its course, and the wearied men were still pulling at the oars.
The captured boat was to be left in his charge, and soon the whaleboat started down the river toward the ocean.
Just as soon as I can see that whaleboat coming out into the bay again I'm done.
We've got a whaleboatdown here on the shore, and we're going to put out in her and see if we can't pull the other boat off and bring her in with us.
And the powerful man picked Benzeor up in his arms and placed him in the whaleboat next to Peter, who, we may be sure, had not been an uninterested observer of all that had occurred.
One of the small cannon was discharged, and from one of the barges came a volley; but only one man was hit, and the whaleboat rapidly increased its speed.
The whaleboat had been built for speed, and was long, narrow, and light.
The men in the whaleboat were rowing desperately, and soon could feel that the other boat had started.
Apparently neither had observed the approaching boats, nor had either uttered a sound which the men in the whaleboat could hear.
The long whaleboat was placed in readiness to receive them, in case flight became necessary, and then the men waited for the approach of the attacking party.
The barges could now no longer be seen, and, with the passing of the fear of pursuit, the men gave all their attention to their efforts to keep the whaleboat out of the trough of the rolling waves.
In a few moments the whaleboat grounded, and the men leaped out and started quickly for the woods which grew close to the shore.
Less than a quarter of a mile lay between them, and, heavily laden as the supply boat was, it materially decreased the speed which otherwise the whaleboat might have made.
The band responded with a will, and the whaleboat darted forward with increasing speed.
But to get near it," the commander went on, "I'd have to put a whaleboat at your disposal?
Before proceeding to the account of capturing one of these monsters, I will speak of the whaleboat and its appurtenances used for the purpose.
The whaleboat is from twenty-two to thirty feet in length, and is provided with five or six oars.
Outboard hawsers were run by the crew of the whaleboat to the floating anchor-buoys, to keep the sloop off the stone-pile when the enrockment blocks were being swung clear of her sides.
Four men from the platform now sprang into a whaleboat and pulled out to meet the sloop, carrying one end of a heavy hawser which was being paid out by the men on the Ledge.
The whaleboat was not necessary to put the Langa- Langa return boys ashore.
Not from any sailor in whaleboat or launch could he accept, or would he be offered, a bit of biscuit or an invitation to go ashore for a run.
When the whaleboat was alongside, he descended into it first, superiorly, then invited Nau-hau to accompany him.
The ketch was so small that she was compelled to tow her one whaleboat astern on long double painters, and by the time the mate had it hauled in under the stern, Van Horn was back.
You recollect, down to the south'ard last year, a chap named Hawkins was lost in his whaleboat running the Arli Passage?
Exhausted and excited with the events of the past few hours, Tom lay down in the stern sheets, and the whaleboat leapt and spun along in the darkness towards the scarcely discernible outline of Alofi Island.
Before old Sam could frame a reply, the strange brig came to the wind swiftly and noiselessly, a whaleboat which hung on the port quarter was lowered, and pulled over towards the Lady Alicia, the big bearded man steering.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whaleboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boat; canoe; cruiser; ferry
