pilot boat
pilot cutter

During the first months of the conflict, she served as a pilot boat.

The Americans had already gone ashore in the pilot boat.

Now he could see the pilot boat with the naked eye.

He stood back and observed the transfer of the women to the pilot boat.

Before he had made his request for permission to leave by the pilot boat.

The pilot boat was still visible when it began to slow and turn.

"The pilot boat is coming alongside," he said to his first officer.

Many of the Forth shipping pilot boats were based here.

"Order the lookout to watch for the approaching pilot boat."

Smith watched the pilot boat accelerate away into the rain.

"He left by the pilot boat early this morning."

The arms were originally proposed in 1855 and described as a pilot boat on the sea.

In less than a fraction of a glass, a pilot boat steamed up.

The captain was later taken off the pilot boat and the tow abandoned.

"They are sending people to meet you aboard the pilot boat.

"The pilot boat is assigned to you after all."

"Have the pilot boat outrun them and deliver the message in person."

Pilot boats are specially marked to make it clear what their function is.

Currently, yachts must be led by pilot boat to their club, but this will soon change.

What happened when the pilot boat came in sight of Shanghai will be easily guessed.

They have rolled the gangway back and she also has a pilot boat alongside.

She was the first powered pilot boat in San Diego.

Renamed California, she served actively as a pilot boat before being retired in 1972.

Pilot boats had to be seaworthy and able to withstand almost any weather.

Pilot boats' standard consisted of a national flag bordered in white.