caïque

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Noun
  • Design firm Yabu Pushelberg created interiors that feel more like a private yacht than a city hotel.
    Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Those sailing aboard The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s 226-suite Luminara yacht can count Singapore as a spectacular port of call.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Thales has completed Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs) for both the Mission System and the Combat System on the Royal Navy’s new Type 31 Inspiration-class frigates.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
  • British officials, seeking economies of scale for their own navy and to boost Scotland’s shipyard industry, had heavily promoted the BAE Systems’ frigates, known as the T-26 City-class.
    Reuters 22 min ago, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The same year the Earl of Chatham was discovered in Scotland, a storm in Massachusetts exposed a wrecked schooner from 1909, another on North Carolina’s Outer Banks’s revealed the remains of a boat from 1919 and storms in Maine resurfaced yet another 18th century vessel on a beach.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The source is a wooden schooner named the James R. Bentley that's been sitting in Lake Huron for nearly 150 years.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • From Ocean Swell to Living-Room Calm Industrial designer Roey Pan sketched the first arc aboard a 27-ft sloop, tracing the way a mainsail breathes with the wind.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
  • An avuncular figure in his 70s with the physique of a man who has enjoyed life, Pier Luigi fell in love with sailing in his late teens, when a family friend took him for a cruise in a sloop.
    Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The dive shop loads us up on one of the skiffs for near-shore diving, hauling us out to a historical wreck site on their larger double-decker catamaran.
    Peter Kelly, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The company offers everything from half-day catamaran sails to three-hour private adventure charters to Masonboro Island.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • In nearby Bonavista village, the Matthew Legacy is a full-sized replica of the caravel that Cabot sailed across the Atlantic on the fateful voyage.
    JOE YOGERST, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Wreck 5 was built using a method known as caravel planking, where planks are placed end to end without overlapping, archaeologist and project leader Håkan Altrock said in the release.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The smaller craft outmaneuvered the two larger ships, causing the 1,500-ton China coast guard vessel—a converted Chinese navy corvette—to slam into the side of the 7,500-ton warship.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This can all quickly change if the Navy gets real about their fuel demands, acknowledges the Pacific will be contested, and confronts the looming logistical challenge of keeping vast numbers of autonomous corvettes and other small support craft operational in a conflict.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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“Caïque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ca%C3%AFque. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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