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Peterhead launch
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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: Peterhead (boat)
Quotations
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. . . .