Talk:Jean-François de Surville

Yawl?
Exactly what type of boat was Saint Jean-Baptiste's yawl? Did it have oars or was it purely a sailboat? The "Yawl" article (which this article links to) is about a two-masted sailboat, with only a brief mention that the term was also used for a type of ship's boat with oars. Nurg (talk) 01:46, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Dunmore in his books on Surville (including his translations of Surville and Labe's journals) uses the term yawl. I suspect that this is in its historical context, i.e. a boat with oars. I will update the link to direct the reader to ship's boat. Zawed (talk) 07:19, 26 November 2019 (UTC)