With two men at the oars, the ship's boat fairly skimmed over the water to the shore.
The ultimate was a ‘flogging round the fleet’ with so many lashes given at the gangway of each ship with the victim and punishment party in a ship's boat.
The wooden decking is still reasonably intact, though crowded with fittings to support the ship's boats, remains of davits, and small cleats and bollards for securing the boats.
You still anchor offshore, but you do not tender in to the port on your ship's boats.
Other features along this side of the hull are davits for the ship's boats, the last of which hosts the buoy line.
Definition of ship's boat in US English:
ship's boat
noun
A small boat carried on board a ship.
船载小艇；（大船携带的）救生艇
Example sentencesExamples
The ultimate was a ‘flogging round the fleet’ with so many lashes given at the gangway of each ship with the victim and punishment party in a ship's boat.
The wooden decking is still reasonably intact, though crowded with fittings to support the ship's boats, remains of davits, and small cleats and bollards for securing the boats.
Other features along this side of the hull are davits for the ship's boats, the last of which hosts the buoy line.
You still anchor offshore, but you do not tender in to the port on your ship's boats.
With two men at the oars, the ship's boat fairly skimmed over the water to the shore.