Meanings of deck vessels in English

He built in its vicinity three decked vessels-thefirst ever seen upon Lake Ontario.

In order to fish with decked vessels, the men would require to remain at sea in good and bad weather.

For centuries our forefathers had hunted the shark like this in open boats, but nowadays men preferred to use decked vessels.

At last in the beginning of June the English King had two hundred ships assembled, from decked vessels down to open sailing-boats.

There he gained forty ships of war, of which twenty were decked vessels with four banks of oars, and the others smaller.

After the taking of Andros, twenty Rhodian ships, all decked vessels, had formed a junction with them, under the command of Agesimbrotus.

In other places the winter fishing with decked vessels is practised all winter, is it not?-On the coast of England it is.

Has it ever been tried to set lines from these decked vessels?-In summer it has been tried, and it has generally failed.

The half- decked vessels that crept along the Mediterranean shores were but ill-fitted to bear the brunt of the furious waves of the Atlantic.

The Pitcairners have already proceeded from the simple canoe to row-boats, and the progress from this to small decked vessels is simple and natural.

In the late nineteenth century decked vessels came into use besides the open boats, succeeded by steam trawlers at the beginning of the present century.