He's a regular revolving light, is the Captain,a beacon always burning and saying plainly, 'Here are life-boats, ready to put off in all weathers and bring the shipwrecked into quiet waters.'

Under the first headingenemy actionthe losses were 8 yachts, 6 motor launches, 3 motor boats, 150 trawlers, 59 drifters, and 10 paddle minesweepers; and the losses due to navigational risks were 5 yachts, 55 trawlers, 7 motor launches, 3 motor boats, 30 drifters, and 1 paddle minesweeper, whilst the total loss of life was 197 officers and 1,782 men.

M'Leod mentioned his schemes for carrying on fisheries with spirit, and that he would wish to understand the construction of boats.

Before us stretched a long bare sweep of mud and sand, while out beyond lay the Ray Channel, with a number of small boats and fishing-smacks anchored along its narrow course.

I rows folks out to their boats round Tilbury way, and at times I does a bit of eel fishingor maybe in summer there's a job lookin' arter the yachts at Leigh and Southend.

As I seemed likely to be spending some time in the place, I thought I might as well make everything as comfortable and tidy as possible to start with; and, thanks to my combined experience of small boats and prison cells, I flatter myself I made rather a good job of it.

We began by discussing various nautical topics, such as the relative merits of a centre-board or a keel for small boats, and whether whisky or beer was really the better drink when one was tired and wet through.

All boats has their day on the Mississip, And her day come at last, The Movastar was a better boat, But the Belle she would n't be passed.

On the other hand Nabis had to cede his foreign possessions, Argos, Messene, the Cretan cities, and the whole coast besides; to bind himself neither to conclude foreign alliances, nor to wage war, nor to keep any other vessels than two open boats; and lastly to disgorge all his plunder, to give to the Romans hostages, and to pay to them a war-contribution.

Some, of them took the red side, and manned the gun-boats on the Seine.

We deplored the loss of our unhappy companions; we did not presage, at this moment, the still more terrible scene which was to take place the following night; far from that, we enjoyed a degree of satisfaction, so fully were we persuaded that the boats would come to our relief.

The evening came, and the boats did not appear.

Mr. Corréard fancied he was travelling through the fine plains of Italy; one of the officers said to him, gravely, "I remember that we have been deserted by the boats; but fear nothing; I have just written to the governor, and in a few hours we shall be saved."

We still expected to see the boats or some vessels; we addressed our prayers to the Eternal, and placed our confidence in him.

Thus arrived the seventh day since we had been abandoned; we calculated that, in case the boats had not stranded on the coast, they would want, at least, three or four times twenty-four hours to reach St. Louis.

Men, fish, and boats.

Accordingly we did so, and furled all our sails, as to the savages we feared nothing, but only that they might se the ship on fire; to prevent which, I ordered them to get their boats out, and fasten them, one close by the head, and the other by the stern, well manned, with skeets and buckets to extinguish the flames, should it so happen.

They rowed round the ship, which occasioned us to call to the men in the boats, not to suffer them to come near them.

Some of the largest train boats have several tracks and carry a train on each.

The boats are tied in slips at the shore so that the tracks meet exactly those on the land.

I joined a crowd on the water 's edge in front of the hotel to watch a funeral procession in boats.

White-robed priests stood up in the front of the boats and chanted some mournful ritual, keeping time to the dull thumping of a drum.

Hitherto, in our desire to learn the secrets of the growth of Israel, we have been like men peering over the sides of their tiny boats into the depths of a sea that covers fascinating mysteries; watching the labors of the adepts who ever and anon bring up to the light some fresh fragments of a buried world.

Boats, soon followed by sloops, engaged in the fisheries; brigs and ships were built for the trade with England.

Had the policy of Adams been continued from 1800 to 1808, the annual million, aided by the live-oak and cedar frames, the three millions paid for gun-boats, and the frigates on hand when Jefferson came into power, would have provided or placed upon the stocks ten ships of the line, forty frigates, and ten sloops-of-war.