How To Use Pinnace In A Sentence
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“The pinnace is all busted up and rigged for river work and the sledge is a pain in the arse to drag,” said Hickey.
The Terror
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Jacobz in command of our pinnace manned with 4 musketeers and 6 rowers, all of them furnished with pikes and side arms together with the cockboat of the _Zeehaen_, with one of her second mates and six musketeers in it, to a bay situated N.W. of us at upwards of a mile's distance in order to ascertain what facilities (as regards fresh water, refreshments, timber and the like) may be available there.
A Source Book of Australian History
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In the middle the open water of the fairway is crowded with pinnaces, jolly-boats, cutters, and pleasure steamers.
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An 'I'd ha' done it, too, only the pinnace from the flagship was just comin 'alongside.
A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
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The name pinnace was applied to vessels having a wide range in tonnage, etc., from a craft of hardly more than ten or fifteen tons to one of sixty or eighty.
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
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What shall we call the pinnace when she is launched, Mistress White?
Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
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When about 50 yards from the shore the pinnaces cast off, leaving the boats to be rowed to the beach by their naval crews, under covering fire from the warships.
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They range from gaff rigs, Clyde Silver yachts and even a Custom's Pinnace.
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The pinnace was a big, roomy, and rather heavy boat, pulling ten oars, double banked, and mounting a nine-pounder gun in her bows.
The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast
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Jump point transits were rough on the crews of small ships like frigates, corvettes, and pinnaces.
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Every unpainted piece of metal was polished and smoothed, including the impractical brass funnels on admirals' pinnaces.
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By dint of sheer sturdiness of arms, legs, and lungs, keeping true time with the pant and the shout, steadily goes it with hoist and haul, and cheerily undulates the melody of call that rallies them all with a strong will together, until the steep bluff and the burden of the bulk by masculine labor are conquered, and a long row of powerful pinnaces displayed, as a mounted battery, against the fishful sea.
Mary Anerley
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In the middle the open water of the fairway is crowded with pinnaces, jolly-boats, cutters, and pleasure steamers.
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The _Mary_ -- for so Fritz now called the pinnace -- had been ten days at sea, the wind had died away, and for some time scarcely a zephyr had ruffled the surface of the water, the sails were lazily flapping against the mast, and but for the currents, the voyagers would have been almost stationary.
Willis the Pilot
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So long that we had thirty at a time sick of this _calenture_, which attacked our men, either by reason of the sudden change from cold to heat, or by reason of brackish water which had been taken in by our pinnace, through the sloth of their men in the mouth of the river, not rowing further in where the water was good.
Sir Francis Drake Revived
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At anchoring, we saluted the king with nine guns, and the general sent Mr Femell ashore handsomely attended in the pinnace, with a fine crimson awning, to present the king a fair gilt cup of ten ounces weight, a sword-blade, and three yards of _stammel_ [red] broad-cloth.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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The cruisers and two pinnaces remained behind while Hillary's pinnace fled with another.
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The boys instantly obeyed; but being closely pursued by the natives, the cockswain of the pinnace, to whom the charge of the boats was committed, fired a musket over their heads.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
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We took them up in the pinnace, Moone & Carie much afeard & Crokeham in a sound, & with them a boxe or kist of great weight.
The Life of the World to Come
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They would go in bunched, the pinnaces ahead; they and the Space-Scourge would go down to the ground, while the better-armed Nemesis would hover above to fight off local contragravity, shoot down missiles, and generally provide overhead cover.
Space Viking
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Thither we went in a fine boat they call a pinnace, with six oars; his servants, and horses, and baggage going in the ferry-boat.
Moll Flanders
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‘The frigate and the pinnaces might be able to outmaneuver us,’ Brenner said, ‘but not the galleon.’
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That our pinnace was a vessel able to withstand such waves as would be met with in the ocean, can be believed when you remember that she was one half the size of the Goodspeed, which we counted a ship.
Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony
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Skane's Edge Of the seven sailhands who manned the pinnace from the foun'dering of the galleass Crow only four reached the beaches of Skane's Edge alive.
Stormwarden
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The weather faired, and our general caused our great pinnace to be made ready, and to row along the coast,
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On June 9, 1873, Wyville Thomson and a party of the Scientifics and officers left the ship early in the morning aboard the steam pinnace.
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The Macaw's cannons unleashed a salvo that pummeled the pinnace.
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_Fatima_, the first swab, as I told you, got an ugly scrape in the leg that prevented him from moving; so when the second lieutenant was put in charge of the dhow to take her up to Zanzibar, I was the only responsible man the captain could think of to send cruising with the pinnace, as the middy was a harum-scarum youngster, who hadn't got thought enough, and neither the boatswain nor Chips could be taken away from their duties without perhaps the ship suffering.
The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
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In the middle the open water of the fairway is crowded with pinnaces, jolly-boats, cutters, and pleasure steamers.
