| The bows of the longboat collided with the dock, causing the little boats to pitch and sway in a haphazard fashion. |
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| The longboat was launched before a crowd of about 500 at Town Beach, the cradle of history in this district. |
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| The sailors escaped back out to sea in their battered longboat, praying for rescue by a passing ship. |
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| Kennedy and an assortment of repair men loaded into the longboat and made their way to the American ship. |
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| Abilene decided to climb a tree to see if he could see his father and fellow sailors going back to the longboat. |
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| A long sea voyage aboard a Viking longboat would be difficult for you, but you might be able to manage it. |
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| Drawing near the schooner, a crew was dispatched overside in the longboat with a squad of marines. |
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| He said he hoped to return in June when the longboat will have been fitted out with sails and rigging. |
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| Within moments of the 6ft torches being thrown on to the deck, the longboat was consumed in flames. |
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| With the completion of the skeleton of the 35-foot long hull, the longboat has begun to take shape, exciting project stakeholders. |
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| Rather than test the validity of those claims, the sailors quickly set back to sea in a longboat. |
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| Perhaps their most glorious hour was when they discovered the hulk of a Viking longboat, perfectly preserved in mud off Anglesey. |
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| Its capacity was far larger than that of the old longboat, and soon all other ports started using it as a more efficient way of transporting wine. |
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| The journey by longboat may take about 14 hours each way, depending on weather conditions. |
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| Still, by the time Wonka and his guests set sail, the fact that their ship is a Viking longboat carved from a big boiled sweet seems almost mundane. |
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| Here might be the cove on which Hudson's longboat crew battled the Algonquins. |
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| Unfortunately as attempts were made to haul the longboat off the rocks a rope came unstuck and struck one of the Islanders, almost severing their right elbow. |
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| Cabral dispatches a small party, headed by Nicolau Coelho, in a longboat ashore to make first contact. |
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| The largest boat on shipboard is the launch or longboat, originally a burdensome sailing and rowing boat capable of carrying such heavy loads as anchors and cannon. |
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| In the oft-cited case of United States v. Holmes, in 1842, a longboat containing passengers and members of the crew of a sunken American vessel was cast adrift in the stormy sea. |
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| He sailed, as an observer in a longboat, upstream from the mother ship's anchorage at Tadoussac, a summer trading post, to the site of Montreal and its rapids. |
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| The 37-metre wooden longboat, which was discovered in Roskilde, Denmark, will be the star attraction at the Viking exhibition which will open at the British Museum in March. |
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| Almost every day someone will go fishing, whether it is from the rocks, from a longboat or diving with a spear gun. |
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| She was once more caulked and repaired in 1527 in a newly dug dock at Portsmouth and her longboat was repaired and trimmed. |
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| So far we had had reason to rejoice in the escape of our longboat, which had received no damage from any of the huge seas which had come on board. |
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| He twice crossed the Atlantic, before returning to serve under his uncle as the commander of Suckling's longboat, which carried men and dispatches to and from the shore. |
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| The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat. |
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| The view from your bench is of Jewfish Key, Longboat Key and Bradenton Beach. |
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| Milton Harris' stayer prevailed by the narrowest of margins over 2-1 favourite Longboat Key, and appears to have stamina in abundance. |
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