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The captain's gig is a boat used on naval ships as the captain's taxi. [1]

22 relations: Admiral, Aircraft carrier, Barge, Battleship, Boat, Bow (ship), Cornish pilot gig, Coxswain, Flagship, Gunwale, Internal combustion engine, Keel, Longboat, Oar, Pinnace (ship's boat), Science fiction, Skeg, Star Trek, Stern, Transom (nautical), United States Navy, Whitehall rowboat.

Admiral

Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies, and in many navies is the highest rank.

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Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.

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Barge

A barge is a flat-bottomed ship, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods.

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Battleship

A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns.

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Boat

A boat is a watercraft of a large range of type and size.

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Bow (ship)

The bow is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is usually most forward when the vessel is underway.

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Cornish pilot gig

The Cornish pilot gig is a six-oared rowing boat, built of Cornish narrow leaf elm, long with a beam of.

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Coxswain

The coxswain is the person in charge of a boat, particularly its navigation and steering.

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Flagship

A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag.

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Gunwale

The gunwale is the top edge of the side of a boat.

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Internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine (ICE) is a heat engine where the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.

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Keel

On boats and ships, the keel is either of two parts: a structural element that sometimes resembles a fin and protrudes below a boat along the central line, or a hydrodynamic element.

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Longboat

In the days of sailing ships, a vessel would carry several ship's boats for various uses.

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Oar

An oar is an implement used for water-borne propulsion.

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Pinnace (ship's boat)

As a ship's boat, the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Skeg

A skeg, (skegg or skag) is a sternward extension of the keel of boats and ships which have a rudder mounted on the centre line.

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Stern

The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail.

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Transom (nautical)

In naval architecture, a transom is either the surface that forms the stern of a vessel or one of the many horizontal beams that make up that surface (e.g., the "wing transom", etc.). Transoms may be flat or curved and they may be vertical, raked forward, also known as a retroussé or reverse transom, angling forward (toward the bow) from the waterline to the deck, or raked aft, often simply called "raked", angling in the other direction.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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Whitehall rowboat

Whitehall rowboats (Whitehalls) are considered one of the most refined rowboats of the 19th century.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain's_gig

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