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Whaleboat, the Glossary

A whaleboat is a type of open boat that was used for catching whales, or a boat of similar design that retained the name when used for a different purpose.^[1]

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Abenaki

The Abenaki (Abenaki: Wαpánahki) are Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States.

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Acadia

Acadia (Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River.

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The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Benjamin Church (ranger)

Colonel Benjamin Church (– January 17, 1718) was a New England military officer and politician who is best known for his role in innovative military tactics notably developing Unconventional warfare.

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Boat

A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size or capacity, its shape, or its ability to carry boats.

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Centreboard

A centreboard or centerboard (US) is a retractable hull appendage which pivots out of a slot in the hull of a sailboat, known as a centreboard trunk (UK) or centerboard case (US).

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Charles W. Morgan (ship)

Charles W. Morgan is an American whaling ship built in 1841 that was active during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Clinker (boat building)

Clinker-built (also known as lapstrake) is a method of boat building in which the edges of hull planks overlap each other.

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French and Indian War

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

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Gaspee affair

The Gaspee affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution.

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Gorham's Rangers

Gorham's Rangers was one of the most famous and effective ranger units raised in colonial North America.

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Jib

A jib is a triangular sail that sets ahead of the foremast of a sailing vessel.

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Johan Nicolay Tønnessen

Johan Nicolay Tønnessen (30 November 1901 – 27 December 1987) was a Norwegian historian and schoolteacher.

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John Bradstreet

Major General John Bradstreet, born Jean-Baptiste Bradstreet (21 December 1714 – 25 September 1774) was a British Army officer during King George's War, the French and Indian War, and Pontiac's War.

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King William's War

King William's War (also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, or the First Intercolonial War in French) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg.

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Lifeboat (shipboard)

A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship. Whaleboat and lifeboat (shipboard) are ship's boats.

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.

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Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Longship

Longships were a type of specialised Scandinavian warships that have a long history in Scandinavia, with their existence being archaeologically proven and documented from at least the fourth century BC.

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Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.

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Mainsail

A mainsail is a sail rigged on the main mast of a sailing vessel.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Meigs Raid

The Meigs Raid (also known as the Battle of Sag Harbor) was a military raid by American Continental Army forces, under the command of Connecticut Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, on a British Loyalist foraging party at Sag Harbor, New York on May 24, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War.

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Mi'kmaq

The Mi'kmaq (also Mi'gmaq, Lnu, Miꞌkmaw or Miꞌgmaw) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands, indigenous to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native Americans in the northeastern region of Maine.

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Montagu whaler

The Montagu whaler was the standard seaboat of the Royal Navy between 1910–1970, it was a clinker built open boat, which could be pulled by oars or powered by saila shorter version of was also built. Whaleboat and Montagu whaler are boat types.

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Mystic Seaport

Mystic Seaport Museum or Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut is the largest maritime museum in the United States. Whaleboat and Mystic Seaport are boat types.

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Narragansett Bay

Narragansett Bay is a bay and estuary on the north side of Rhode Island Sound covering, of which is in Rhode Island.

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Paledang

Paledang, peledang, or pledang is a type of Indonesian sailing vessel used for aboriginal whaling from the communities of Lamalera and Lamakera in the islands of Lembata and Solor, respectively.

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Pequod (Moby-Dick)

Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville.

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Return J. Meigs Sr.

Return Jonathan Meigs (December 28, 1740 – January 28, 1823) was a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and an early settler of the Northwest Territory.

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Rigid inflatable boat

A rigid inflatable boat (RIB), also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity boat constructed with a rigid hull bottom joined to side-forming air tubes that are inflated with air to a high pressure so as to give the sides resilient rigidity along the boat's topsides.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaleboat

Also known as Open-boat whaling, Whale boat, Whaleboats, Whaler (boat).

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