From: m35prod@optonline.net
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 18:59:27 PST
It's common knowlege on the water.
ship:
A large craft in which persons and goods may be conveyed on water. In the U.S. Navy the term boat refers to any vessel that is small enough to be hoisted aboard a ship, and ship is used for any larger vessel; all submarines, no matter what size, are designated as boats, and ship-sized vessels are often referred to colloquially as boats (e.g. steamboats).
(From the Columbia University Press Encyclopedia)
Rubber rafts are devices/life-saving, and lifeBOATs are found on ships.
APB
----- Original Message -----
From: MV <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
Date: Monday, January 9, 2006 5:54 pm
Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
> Arthur,
>
> Where do you get these facts from??? Or is that common knowledge
> in
> your neck of the woods?
>
> Do dingy's count? Rubber rafts? (;->)
>
> Dave - Aka Lefty
>
>
>
> m35prod@optonline.net wrote:
> > A ship is a vessel large enough to carry another vessel. (Or
> designed to do so) Therefore, when crusty old Gene Hackman, in
> "Crimson Tide", says "Anyone who can't handle the stress can leave
> the SHIP right now..." he is committing what is known in the film
> trade as a factual error. (See, for example, the website
> www.IMDB.com, and search your favorite movies for factual errors
> and continuity errors). Submarines could, physically, carry
> another vessel, but they don't, so they are boats, not ships.
> Boat, Patrol Torpedo, or PT Boat, carries no other boat, so it's a
> boat, not a ship. Same for Boat, Patrol, River; and Craft,
> Patrol, Fast ("Swift boat").
> >
> > We don't brag when our boat comes in. We brag when our ship
> comes in. Your ship has come in when you can call your boat a
> ship.
> >
> > Got it now?
> >
> > APB (Bloom, Arthur Paul)
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: timothy.smith1@att.net
> > Date: Monday, January 9, 2006 2:05 pm
> > Subject: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
> >
> >
> >>I hereby acknowledge receipt of various emails explaining the
> >>difference between a PBR & a Swift boat. Whatever the name,
> it's
> >>a really neat looking boat. (Or is it a "ship"? Whatever!)
> >>
> >>Now if some of you salty old sea-dogs can explain to me why the
> >>little round windows on the starboard side are called "port"
> >>holes, I'll be completely satisfied.
> >>
> >>(grins)
> >>TJ
> >>
> >>"There exists no sporting event whose entertainment value cannot
> >>be vastly improved by the introduction of a series of randomly
> >>placed land-mines."
> >>
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