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Peterhead launch

• n. a decked launch or large whaleboat equipped with a single sail and a modest motor, widely used in the Eastern Arctic and patterned on a type of whaler deriving from Peterhead, Scotland.

  See also: Peterhead (boat)  

  • 1942  A trim Peterhead launch was moving toward us.
  • 1958  Staff members have cruised by Peterhead schooner, trap and whale boats, along the coasts of southern Baffin Island. . . .