There was a type of beach boat unique to Herne Bay and nearby Thanet, known as the Thanet wherry, a narrow pulling boat about long.
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An advanced division of the best pulling boats commanded by Lieutenant Westphall and carrying armed seamen and marines from " Sceptre " attacked the enemy's shipping.
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After arrival on September 13 the " Yukon ", " Taku ", two steam launches, scow and eight " pulling boats " were housed for the winter.
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It was not until lifesaving services were formed that the personal safety of boat crews heading out in pulling boats in generally horrific sea conditions was addressed.
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These river lifeboats, usually painted red, were of a wooden pulling boat design, with a very narrow length-to-beam ratio and a shallow draft for negotiating shoal waters and turbulent rock-strewn currents.
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This time was reduced to 32 hours in 1855 which corresponds to a speed of 11 km / h thanks to frequent replacement of horses ( every 10 km ) pulling boats.
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Along Route 28, leading from the Falmouth-Woods Hole area, cars, many of them pulling boats, stretched southward for more than 10 miles from the Bourne Bridge, the only other bridge across the canal.
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But mostly the Hull Lifesaving Museum's annual Snow Row out of Pemberton Point into Hull Gut and Hingham Bay holds to the traditions of a sterner time, when wooden pulling boats were more common than herring gulls in many parts of New England.
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In the Keys, a steady line of traffic, marked by sport utility vehicles pulling boats on trailers, drove north along U . S . 1 on Thursday as visitors and mobile home residents followed orders to evacuate the entire 100-mile-( 160-kilometer-) long island chain.
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In the Florida Keys, a steady line of traffic, marked by sport utility vehicles pulling boats on trailers, drove north along U . S . 1 on Thursday as visitors and mobile home residents followed orders to evacuate the entire 100-mile-( 160-kilometer-) long island chain.
