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A cutter secured to a boat boom, ready for use, alongside an anchored battleship during the First World War. At about the same time that the decked, fast-sailing cutters of the 18th century appeared, the term was also applied to a new class of ship's boat. These were clinker-built open boats, optimised for sailing but capable under oars. They ...
Endeavour ( Great Britain): The ship was captured in the North Sea off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire by a French brig cutter. [23] Engageante ( French Navy): Action of 23 April 1794: The Engageante-class frigate was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS Concorde. Espiègle ( French Navy): The 15-gun brig-sloop was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS ...
Types of boat shown in an 1808 engraving, including top left, 'a Jolly boat for oars or sail' The jolly boat was a type of ship's boat in use during the 18th and 19th centuries. Used mainly to ferry personnel to and from the ship, or for other small-scale activities, it was, by the 18th century, one of several types of ship's boat.
In the age of sail, a ship carried a variety of boats of various sizes and for different purposes.In the navies they were: (1) the launch, or long-boat, the largest of all rowboats on board, which was of full, flat, and high built; (2) the barge, the next in size, which was employed for carrying commanding officers, with ten or twelve oars (3) the pinnace, which was used for transporting ...
Decoy-class cutter; HMS Dolphin (1801) HMS Duc de la Vauginon (1779) HMS Duke of York (1763) HMS Dwarf (1810) E. HMS Elizabeth (1805 cutter) HMS Endeavour (1763 cutter)
The type was in use by Deal boatmen in the 18th century. It first occurred as a naval ship's boat after Deal boatbuilders recommended a different design to boats ordered from them by the Royal Navy to equip the cutters purchased in the 1760s to combat smuggling. The captains of larger warships soon sought permission to substitute a gig for one ...
Thames wherry built to 18th-century design at Kingston upon Thames A Norfolk wherry on the River Bure.. A wherry is a type of boat that was traditionally used for carrying cargo or passengers on rivers and canals in England, and is particularly associated with the River Thames and the River Cam.
The Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service, as it was known variously throughout the late 18th and the 19th centuries, referred to its ships as cutters.The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, with a gaff mainsail on a boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail."