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83-foot patrol boat: Succeeded by: Island class cutter: Completed: 36: General characteristics [1] Class and type: Patrol boat: Displacement: Type A, 102 tons fully loaded; Type B, 105 tons fully loaded; Type C, 98 tons fully loaded [2] Length: 95 ft (29 m) Beam: 20 ft (6.1 m) max: Draft: Type A, 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Type B, 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m ...
USCGC Cape Shoalwater was a 95-foot (29 m) type "C" Cape-class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1958 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat.
Shoalwater was fitted with two geared engines, of which historian Corning said "generated more noise than power". [3] Shoalwater , as her name indicated, was designed to run when all other boats were compelled to lay up for lack of water on the sand and gravel bars that often blocked river navigation.
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The Shoalwater Islands Marine Park is a protected marine park located in Western Australia and stretches from the northern point of the Garden Island Causeway to the southern point of Becher Point. The 6,540-hectare (16,200-acre) marine park is located offshore from the suburban locality of Shoalwater .
This boat was twenty-five feet (7.62 m) long by six feet (1.83 m) wide, and was managed by three negroes,—the "steersman", who guided the boat with a long and powerful oar; the headsman, who stood on the bow to direct the steersman by waving his arms; and an extra hand, who assisted with an oar in the eddies and smooth parts of the river.
Bolger was a prolific writer and wrote many books, the last being Boats with an Open Mind, as well as hundreds of magazine articles on small craft designs, chiefly in Woodenboat, Small Boat Journal and Messing About in Boats. Bolger died on May 24, 2009, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His wife explained that "[h]is mind had slipped in the ...