pleasure craft
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Some 1,000 ships, including pleasure craft and fishing vessels, took part in the rescue - a key moment of the war.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2023
They had been aboard a pleasure craft, along with 19 other people, when it was hit by a fierce storm on Lake Maggiore on Sunday evening and swiftly sank.
From Reuters ● May 31, 2023
British papers published video of a French trawler ramming the stern of a British pleasure craft; no one was hurt.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2021
After Hart’s costly trip on the pleasure craft Monkey Business led to his political demise, the Washington Post faced difficult questions about Woodward’s weird relationship with Hart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
At the northern end of the lake, hundreds of pleasure craft were converging on the same spot.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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