Longboat in example sentence

While I was contemplating this inert mass, suddenly a dozen of these voracious melanoptera appeared around our longboat; but, paying no attention to us, they pounced on the corpse and quarreled over every scrap of it.

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Would Commander Farragut put a longboat to sea?Could I hope to be rescued?

An excellent longboat, light and unsinkable, which is used for excursions and fishing trips."

I insert myself through this double opening into the longboat.

I undo the bolts holding the skiff to the submersible, and the longboat rises with prodigious speed to the surface of the sea.

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