Boats have served as short-distance transportation since early times.

Boats built in the U. S. have a Coast Guard Rating Plate which specifies the maximum recommended horsepower for the hull.

I am sorry to transmit to Your Lordship the disagreeable account of a disagreeable Business, some time in the Beginning of this Month, upon news of the Rebel Army approaching, General Carleton set out for Montreal in great Haste ; the 7th instant the Rebels landed in the Woods near St. John's, and beat back to their Boats by a Party of Savages incamped at that Place ; in this Action the Savages behaved with great Spirit and Resolution, and had they remained firm to our Interests, probably the Province would have been safe for this Year, but finding the Canadians in General averse to the taking up Arms for the Defence of their Country, they withdrew, and made their Peace.

The journey was undertaken to demonstrate how the Bull Boats of the Mandan Indians of North Dakota could have been copied from coracles introduced by Prince Madog in the 12th century.

His production designs ( mass-produced as opposed to custom ) have been produced by a variety of yacht manufacturers including Cookson Boats, Carroll Marine, Beneteau, Concordia, Baltic and Nauta.

Boats have historically been a widely used form of migration or escape for people of limited resources.

Today, J / Boats have built the world's largest fleets of asymmetric spinnaker sailboats-over 3, 000 today.

Actual U. S. Navy 80-foot Elco PT Boats were used throughout the filming, albeit remarked with false hull numbers that would have been in use in late 1941 and early 1942.

Boats coming in or going out of Tacloban City have to pass by it through the pilot station of Canaway, one of the islets along the strait.

Berthon Boats have double linings of canvas, sectioned in two watertight envelopes that assist buoyancy and give protection from the possibility that the outer canvas could be accidentally torn.

A number of Kerry's SBVT critics were present on accompanying Swift Boats at one of the combat events for which Kerry was decorated ( see Bronze Star and third Purple Heart ) and another SBVT member, Dr. Louis Letson, was the physician who claims to have treated Kerry for his first Purple Heart wound.

Boats that have come off their moorings are not normally classified as wreck as they have not been abandoned without hope of recovery.

In one election, he stood as the " Trains & Boats & Planes " candidate-the title of a contemporary popular song which he found it apt to adopt-but after revisions to electoral law allowed candidates to have a six-word description of their candidature on the ballot paper, he eventually settled on " Public Safety Democratic Monarchist White Resident ".

Boats wider than wide or high have to have a permit to move and are an oversize load.

Boats cannot safely pass due to the tortuous and narrow route, and there have been instances in the past of boats colliding and sinking.

Boats with outboard engines will often have trim tabs attached to the lower unit of the engine.

Boats in a variety of shapes and sizes have traditionally been the main means of transport of men and materials in the Kerala backwaters since olden days.

Boats, stagecoaches, railway engines and motors have in turn brought goods and people to the town for business and pleasure.

Boats have no movement point limits, but they can't cross land to enter other bodies of water or dock at territories with no open coast tiles.

Boats are special in that you can have more than one Boat on a territory.

It has been proposed that Shrewsbury should have a Parkway railway station built on the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line, east of the town in the Preston Boats / Emstrey area, adjacent to the A5 road.

Boats were used between 4000 BCE and 3000 BCE in Sumer, ancient Egypt and in the Indian Ocean.

Boats were almost exclusively used for working purposes prior to the nineteenth century.

During World War II, the islands were used as a top secret Royal Navy weather and radio station codenamed HMS Atlantic Isle, to monitor U Boats ( which needed to surface to maintain radio contact ) and German shipping movements in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Boats similar to torpedo boats are still in use, but are armed with long-range anti-ship missiles that can be used at ranges between 30 and 70 km.

* Boats were used between 4000BCE-3000BCE in Sumer, ancient Egypt and in the Indian Ocean.

Boats placed in tombs of Egyptian royalty can be separated into two types: boat models that represent actual vessels used on the Nile, and boat models that represent boats that are considered necessary for religious purposes.

Boats, snowmachines and ATVs are used extensively by locals on the Kuskokwim River.

Boats are used for inter-village travel and subsistence activities.

Boats used on the canal were small lighters, around wide, capable of carrying from seven to fourteen tons, and normally worked in trains of four vessels.

In 1930 Anheuser-Busch built a series of boat-bodied cars in its St. Louis shops called the " Bevo Boats " which were used for promotion.

Boats log GPS and depth sounder information ( plus compass heading and sea surface temperature when available ) as they go about their normal activities, and upload the data to the server where the data undergoes quality checks and is corrected for tide height, speed of sound and other factors before being used to create a chart.

Boats laden with explosives can be used against ships and areas connected to water.

Boats, ships or even kayaks can be used to access offshore reefs or ocean structure.

Boats that fit these requirements may be as small as the 18 to 21-foot trailerable boats commonly used along the Australian coast, in New Zealand and on the lee coasts of the Hawaiian Islands where they are known as the " mosquito fleet ".

Boats and kayaks can be borrowed and used on the lake during warmer months.

Its engines are used by a number of boat manufacturers including Fairline Boats, Sun Seeker, Riviera, Four Winns, and Cranchi.

He was asked in late 1918 by Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, head of the foreign section of the British Secret Intelligence Service, to volunteer for a mission in the Baltic Sea, where Coastal Motor Boats ( CMBs ) were to be used to ferry British agents back and forth from Bolshevik Russia.

Several other Swift Boats had been lost to river mines, but had been salvaged and either repaired or used for spare parts.

One was used for the shots at sea and two were converted 63 ' WW II Army Air Force Sea Rescue Boats which were based at Universal studios.

During the 1980s, the Nine Network televised a lifestyle program call " World of Boats " ( later to be broadened and called " World of Leisure ") hosted by Chris Conroy which used the Emerson, Lake and Palmer version as the theme for the program.

Others argue that Kerry was referring to ambushes, a common misfortune for Swift Boats which Kerry had not yet suffered, or to the crew collectively, as he used the term " we " instead of " I ," and most of his crewmembers clearly had been " shot at " before.

* Boats :-Boats were used to convey mails coming to India from Cadgury to GPO Kolkata.