Thesaurus results for WORKBOAT

workboat

noun

as in whaleboat

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Recent Examples of workboat However, two workboats were visible, moored alongside the aircraft carrier's bow, suggesting both sides of the bow may have been painted with the hull number. —

Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2025 The Italian yard, known for building high-performance steel and aluminium workboats, established Forte Yachts to produce stylish pleasure crafts. —

Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025 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 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 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

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One day later, another incident occurred in the evening involving a whaleboat that caught fire and capsized near the province’s Lukolela territory, AP, Al Jazeera and Sky News said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025