dinghy
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He appeared with the aid of an Arabic interpreter and when asked how he wished to plea, denied having piloted the dinghy.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Alnour Mohamed Ali, a Sudanese national, was given a 27-month sentence having previously admitted to steering an extremely crowded dinghy carrying 74 people in April.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Chinese dissident Dong Guangping reached South Korea in a rubber dinghy after a 30-hour journey, facing immigration charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The Afghan national abandoned a dinghy carrying passengers he was driving across the English Channel when a rescue ship arrived in January, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
A rubber dinghy was lowered onto the choppy waves.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Yet Iran primarily sets mines using frogmen on small boats that resemble ordinary fishing vessels, an informal maritime militia of dinghies that is virtually impossible to identify and eliminate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Many of those arrived in the country illegally on small dinghies across the English Channel from France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Last year a BBC investigation exposed how Germany's used as a hub, by small-boat smugglers, to store dinghies that are then used for illegal English Channel crossings.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
The deflated dinghies and abandoned life jackets on these beaches may look worthless, but someone will have paid huge sums for what they hoped was a route to a better life.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
She had rowed in dinghies and been out once or twice on large fishing boats.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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