pleasure craft

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During the nine-day evacuation, military, transport, fishing and service vessels, as well as pleasure craft, were used to carry soldiers, with ships flying British, French, Belgian, Dutch, Polish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish flags.

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

Since 2020, Locks officials have recorded three collisions, even though pleasure craft traffic through the Locks is half of what it was in 2000, according to the U.S.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 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

There were no working boats, just pleasure craft.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt