SMALL CRAFT

Definition: SMALL CRAFT

SMALL CRAFT

1. (Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a small size.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: SMALL CRAFT

Books

• Small Craft Advisory: A Book About the Building of a Boat (reference)

• Boat Docking: (Close Quarters Maneuvering for Small Craft) (reference)

• Boater's Bowditch: The Small Craft American Practical Navigator (reference)

• Boat Modeling With Dynamite Payson: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Models of Small Craft (reference)

• Challenge to Poseidon: adventures in small craft on the open seas (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Standards & Recommended Practices For Small Craft (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"South China Sea . . . Crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship U.S.S. Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees aboard from a small craft. The refugees will be transferred later by mechanized landing craft (LCM) to the freighter Transcolorado." By JO1 Mike McGougan, April 3, 1975. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1947-.

Small craft gathered around USS Mindanao (ARG-3) during salvage and rescue efforts shortly after Mount Hood blew up about 350 yards away from Mindanao's port side. Mindanao, and seven motor minesweepers (YMS) moored to her starboard side, were damaged by the blast, as were USS Alhena (AKA-9), in the photo's top left center, and USS Oberrender (DE-344), in top right. Note the extensive oil slick, with tracks through it made by small craft. Credit: NAVY.

Salvage and rescue work underway on USS Mindanao (ARG-3) shortly after Mount Hood blew up about 350 yards away. Note heavy damage to Mindanao's hull and superstructure, including large holes from fragment impacts. View looks forward from alongside her port quarter. USS Mindanao had 180 crewmen killed and injured by this explosion. She was under repair until 21 December 1944. Small craft alongside or nearby include (from left) YPB-6 (probable identification), two LCVPs and YPB-7. Credit: NAVY.

Moored together off San Diego, California, circa 1935. This view shows the ships' sterns, with propeller guards, depth charge racks and small craft visible. Credit: NAVY.

Beached at Sasebo, Japan, 19 October 1945. Three Japanese aircraft carriers and several "Kaibokan" escort ships are in the background. The carriers are Junyo (center, closest to the camera); Ibuki (partially visible beyond Junyo and Kasagi (partially visible at right). Note the small craft in the foreground, with a registration number painted in its interior. Credit: NAVY.

In port (in the center of the photo) circa May-July 1917, probably while being prepared for Navy service. This small craft served as USS Itty E (SP-952) during 1917-20. USS Machigonne (SP-507) can be seen on the opposite side of the pier, with her bow number, stack and masts visible. Credit: NAVY.

Poster featuring a sailor, a South Carolina class battleship, small craft and details on pay and benefits, published about 1909. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed by Svoboda at Smyrna, Turkey, circa 1866-69, with several merchant sailing vessels and small craft in the left foreground. The original print is mounted on a Carte de visite. The view shows Ticonderoga in her configuration of 1865-69, with a bowsprit and straight bow. Credit: NAVY.

Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Boat drill at Manhattan Coast Guard training station. Enlistees are taught how to handle all kinds of small craft, including the quick launching of lifeboats of every type. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coast Guard Auxiliary. Guardians of inland waters. A schooner of the Coast Guard, patrolling waters off Boston. Small craft made available to the government by members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary are being used to supplement the work of the regular fleet. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Civil Liberties

Mauritania

An estimated 60 percent of the country's small craft fishermen are Senegalese. (references)

Economic History

Burkina Faso

The largest river is the Mouhoun (Black Volta), which is partially navigable by small craft. (references)

Bahrain

The new port is to have a capacity of 234,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per year and will include 1,800 meters of quay with minimum 15 meters water depth designed for containers, general cargo, dry bulk and roll-on-roll-off (Ro-Ro) traffic; small craft berths; a container terminal including container freight station, and an aluminum packing shed; as well as a general cargo area. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Japanese Kanji 

小舟 (boat), 小船 (boat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"ぶね (boat). (various references)

Manx

siyn beggey. (various references)

Pig Latin

allsmay aftcray.(various references)

Turkish

sandal (boat, cockboat, cockleboat, dinghy, pinnace, rowing boat, sandal), kayık (bateau, boat, caique, glider, kayak, rowing boat, wherry). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: catfalls, flatcars, fractals.

-3 letters: amtracs, catfall, flatcar, fractal, lactams, tarmacs.

-4 letters: alarms, altars, amtrac, astral, callas, carats, craals, crafts, fracas, lactam, lascar, llamas, malars, rascal, ratals, sacral, scalar, talars, tamals, tarmac, tarsal.

-5 letters: afars, alarm, alfas, almas, altar, artal, atlas, atmas, calfs, calla, calls, calms, camas, carat, carls, carts, clams, clast, craal, craft, crams.