Dinghy
A dinghy is a boat that is carried by a larger vessel .
Dinghies are primarily used to translate the ship's crew , passengers or pilots, to transport goods, to catch up with the anchor or to rescue others from distress at sea . They are usually carried on deck, usually on davits along the side of the ship . Boats lashed directly to the deck require more effort to launch. Dinghies may also be towed. Most tenders these days are motorized.
Depending on the design or intended use, there are the following names for tenders:
- Dingi , a very small boat, mostly as a rubber dinghy , especially on yachts .
- Moses, little dinghy
- Gig , rowing boat in commercial shipping
- Tender boat, a boat used to transfer passengers between ship and port
- Daughter boat , a boat that can leave the mother ship independently and go back into it
- Lifeboats for evacuating the ship in case of distress. However, lifeboats are not always permitted as dinghies (or vice versa).
history
Historically, the dinghies of warships were given certain names in the order of their size. This system has been expanded and further subdivided over time, e.g. B. with the additions "small" and "large", finally by further subdividing the individual types into a number of size classes. These guys were:
- Launch , largest dinghy
- Pinasse or sloop
- Cutter , usually the largest dinghy suspended from davits and therefore suitable for sudden emergencies
- Gig , the commander's boat, on davits at the stern of the ship
- Dinghy until the late 19th century smallest dinghy
- dinghy
From the cutter up these dinghies could be sailed or rowed; the smaller ones could usually only be rowed, the gig was never sailed. The larger dinghies were later given steam engines and then motors .
The size of the individual boats varied depending on the time and size of the ship. The relatively small bounty (equipped in 1787) carried a boat only seven meters long under the name Barkasse; at the end of the 19th century a launch was at least 10 to 12 meters long.
