"Jean O'Boyle" wrote:
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>"Ermalee" wrote in message
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>> Jean, when we leave the plane, we de-plane. When we exit a cruise ship,
>> don't we de-boat?
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>> Ermalee
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>Erm,
>No, we de-ship! We leave de ship! ;-) Oars would make it a boat!
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Actually a ship is any vessel too large to be carried by another
vessel. A boat is a vessel that can be 'shipped'.
An aircraft carrier is a ship. The Admiral's Barge and the Captain's
Gig are boats.
> The ship herself, anchored offshore or tacking sedately past some harbour or headland, remained a thing of mystery, a creature of power and beauty which viewed from a distance concealed her private world of packed humanity and rigid discipline. But her boats were always in evidence...a boat's crew, especially that of an admiral's barge or captain's gig. A captain had to fit out his special boats' crews at his own expense ... In the nineteenth century the captain of HMS Blazer, sloop-of-war, dressed his gig's crew in blue and white striped jackets, from which the latter-day garment took its name.
>The larger boats were the launches and cutters, heavy enough to carry stores or to move parties of seamen and marines from ship to shore required. The ship's launch was double banked, that is to say it had two oarsmen seated on each thwart with an oar on either gunwale.
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