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Longboat in sentence

24 examples of Longboat in a sentence

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.
I likewise assumed that no crewmen would be assigned to us, that Ned Land would be in sole charge of piloting the longboat.
The oars were inside the longboat and we had only to take our seats.
"Master is right," Conseil replied, "and I propose that we set aside three places in our longboat: one for fruit, another for vegetables, and a third for venison, of which I still haven't glimpsed the tiniest specimen."
Carried by an inbound current, the longboat reached the island in a matter of moments.
The longboat's coxswain took the tiller; his four companions leaned into their oars; the moorings were cast off and we pulled clear.
While the longboat coasted, drops of liquid flicked from the oars and hit the dark troughs of the waves, pitter-pattering like splashes of molten lead.
I didn't reply, and while staring at these suspicious waves, I began to put on my heavy aquatic clothes, helped by the longboat's sailors.
An instant later, the longboat's sailors helped us overboard one after the other, and we set foot on level sand in a meter and a half of water.
The three of us followed him, and a few moments later, miraculously safe, we reached the fisherman's longboat.
The longboat flew over the waves.
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.
Arriving within a few cable lengths of the cetacean, our longboat slowed down, and the sculls dipped noiselessly into the tranquil waters.
The sailors went back to their sculling, and the coxswain steered the longboat toward the floating barrel.
Driven by energetic arms, the longboat flew on its trail.
Clinging to the stempost, Ned Land thrust his harpoon again and again into the gigantic animal, which imbedded its teeth in our gunwale and lifted the longboat out of the water as a lion would lift a deer.
Hoisted on board, the longboat was readjusted into its socket, and the Nautilus plunged back beneath the waves.
Besides, the longboat's solidly built, and a few miles with the wind behind us is no big deal.
"Speaking for myself," he said, "I once got walloped by a whale's tail-- in my longboat, needless to say.
"But when these giant seals defend their little ones, their fury is dreadful, and it isn't rare for them to smash a fisherman's longboat to bits.""They're within their rights," Conseil answered.
But our patron, warned by this disaster, resolved to take more care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the longboat of our English ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a-fishing any more without a compass and some provision; so he ordered the carpenter of his ship, who also was an English slave, to build a little state-room, or cabin, in the middle of the long-boat, like that of a barge, with a place to stand behind it to steer, and haul home the main-sheet; the room before for a hand or two to stand and work the sails.