clarenville n [ = settlement in Trinity Bay]. Comb clarenville boat, ~ fleet: one of a number of small wooden vessels built at Clarenville, c1945 by Newfoundland government; SPLINTER BOAT.
   1950 PARKER 57 At the end of the war some of the 'Clarenville' wooden motor boats, which the Government built during the war, were fitted out as refrigerator ships. 1973 HORWOOD 93 His position included supervision of a fleet of boats known locally as the Splinter Fleet, but officially as the Clarenville Fleet.

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