pleasure boat


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Noun1.pleasure boat - a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on boardpleasure boat - a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board
motorboat, powerboat - a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine
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pleasure boat

nbattello da diporto
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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"Of course; an excellent vessel, light and insubmersible, that serves either as a fishing or as a pleasure boat."
My floating coffin was many things in turn; a railway carriage, a pleasure boat on the Thames, a hammock under the trees; last of all it was the upper berth in a not very sweet-smelling cabin, with a clatter of knives and forks near at hand, and a very strong odor of onions in the Irish stew.
The river was still well wide and deep enough for a pleasure boat so small as theirs; but the curves of the country-side suggested that it was closing in on either hand; the woods seemed to be making broken and flying attempts at bridge-building--as if the boat were passing from the romance of a valley to the romance of a hollow and so to the supreme romance of a tunnel.
The tragedy took the lives of 85 people, most of them children, when the Countess Of Eglinton pleasure boat capsized just yards from its landing, throwing more than 100 people into the water on November 10, 1810.
(TAP) - The "HACO" company stemming from the French Catana group, specialised in the manufacturing of boats in Haouria (Nabeul), launched during the week, its new pleasure boat in Tunisia.
Amman, May 30 (Petra) -- At least seven people were killed and 19 went missing after a pleasure boat carrying South Korean tourists capsized on the flooding Danube in the Hungarian capital late Wednesday, an official source said.
The other people appearing in the series are Bangor University Marine Biology graduate, Frankie Hobro, who runs the Anglesey Sea Zoo; landscape photographer, Glyn Davies; John Jones, a mussel boatman, working from Porth Penrhyn, Bangor; Stan Zalot, who runs pleasure boat trips from Beaumaris and Emrys Jones, who runs a pleasure boat trip from Caernarfon at the opposite end of the Strait, and watersports instructors Jamie Johnson & Ali Yates, who work at the Plas Menai National Outdoor Centre.
I was always interested in ships and my first visit was down to the harbour, and there she was moored to the quay - the pleasure boat Coronia.
TOKYO, Sept 5, 2017 - (JCN Newswire) - The Japan Marine Recreation Association (JMRA) and Fujitsu Limited today announced the deployment of a cloud-based emergency position reporting system developed by Fujitsu for JMRA's pleasure boat rescue service, the Boat Assistance Network (BAN).
A PLEASURE boat with 151 people on board caught fire and careered into a pier on the river Thames.
A PLEASURE boat carrying 151 people caught fire and crashed into a Thames pier.