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SIMONGR | 11:21 Fri 27th Jul 2001 | Phrases & Sayings
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When does a boat become a ship?
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For tax purposes a ship can carry fare paying passengers.

In naval terms a ship can travel under its own power, with sails or engine: a boat always has oars. A ship can have propellers, a boat cannot, so one cannot 'become' the other.

As a noun: to ship, to send by land, air or sea. To dispatch. So it depends who is asking.
20:00 Sun 29th Jul 2001
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Click here for an Answerbank feature on ships and boats: article 1490
08:09 Mon 30th Jul 2001
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An old sailor I knew used to tell me that 'you can take a boat on a ship, but you can't take a ship on a boat'.
10:39 Thu 02nd Aug 2001

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