workboat

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Recent Examples of workboat Rose’s father, Kommer, is among the few billionaires in the field, thanks to his idea of introducing standardization and modular manufacturing from the car industry to building workboats, which shorten delivery times and reduce production costs. Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024 With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate. Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023 In the Black Sea, trading an old workboat or other hulk for even a mere mission-kill on a Russian combatant is eminently worthwhile. Craig Hooper, Forbes, 8 June 2022 At the same time, the firm is testing a new, 29-foot-long workboat for the US Coast Guard that can be operated by remote control from shore or switched to a fully autonomous mode. Eric Niiler, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020 At 32 feet, his Alona Rahab was among the smallest workboats in the Tangier fleet and could almost fit inside the Henrietta C. Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018 Forty-odd islanders on 15 workboats spent days dragging the bottom but pulled up only algae and sea grapes. Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018 Feuchter had sailed around the bay painting Chesapeake workboats, pungie. Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 14 Apr. 2018 Giant workboats — the equivalent of floating dump trucks — carry loads of mud, fuel, water, food and other supplies the crews require. Eric Lipton, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workboat
Noun
  • On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.
    Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • The novel was inspired by both his experience as a whaler and the Essex tragedy.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Fin whales are hunted by commercial whalers, which has dwindled their population, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.
    Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
    Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
Noun
  • According to Facebook posts made about the search and rescue attempt, the Coast Guard searched throughout the night between November 30 and December 1. Per Alabama TV station WKRG reporting, Wooley was a father of four and is a seasoned fisherman and shrimper.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
  • In March of 2021, the month independent shrimper Derek Bateman was first able to get through to someone in his state's unemployment office, the average wait time for an appeal was 263 days.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • According to her Forbes profile, Ingram Marine operates 5,000 barges and approximately 150 towboats on America's inland waterways.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Another Washington's treaty ally, Japan, reported that a submarine and a rescue towboat of Russia on December 3 were sailing northward in the waters between two of the country's southwestern islands , a marginal sea of the Western .
    Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • So Martinez and her husband hunkered down for six hours in the ferry parking lot, waiting for the storm to pass while hashing out a plan to sell their 1920s home in California, move across the country with their two daughters, and modernize the 1807 house before the next school year—no small feat.
    Jennifer Fernandez, Architectural Digest, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Set to take effect on July 1 if approved, the rules apply to passenger ships over 492 feet long, encompassing most modern cruise ships but exempting Norway’s coastal ferries like Hurtigruten and Havila, which are built for year-round operation in challenging conditions.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Maritime Museum of San Diego seeks volunteers The nonprofit Maritime Museum of San Diego starts the next Docent Volunteer Training Program for newcomers Jan. 21 at the museum on the upper deck of the ferryboat Berkeley.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
  • For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.
    Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
Noun
  • Known for providing high-quality construction services across multiple sectors, including heavy highway and railroad repair, as well as bridge and marine construction, Mohawk Northeast is powered by a robust fleet of machinery that includes cranes and tugboats.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The plan for the historic ship is for it to be towed by tugboats to Mobile, Alabama where it will be broken down to serve as an artificial reef.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024

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“Workboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workboat. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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