Pinnace

A pinnace is a type of ship's boat, carried by ships to facilitate movement of personnel to and from the ship.

In the Honorverse canon, a hyper-capable warship carries a complement of auxiliary craft, including pinnaces, shuttles, and cutters in their boat-bay. Since the ship is incapable of atmospheric flight or landing on a planet, the auxiliary craft are used to transport personnel and materiel to and from planetary surfaces, as well as between ships, or between ships and stations in situations where it is not practical for the ship to dock with the station.

Pinnaces in TRMN

In The Royal Manticoran Navy: The Official Honor Harrington Fan Association, Inc. (TRMN), a pinnace is a chapter type available to members who wish to start a chapter, but who have not yet recruited enough members for a larger ship type. The pinnace is sponsored by an existing chapter and takes its name from the sponsoring ship's name (eg the first pinnace sponsored by HMS Artemis would be called "Pinnace Artemis-01"). When the pinnace chapter meets the crew complement and training requirements for a larger chapter type, BuShips then commissions it.

Pinnaces are meant to be temporary chapter types. There is a time limit for their operation, and they must either commission as a LAC or larger ship by the time limit, or be decommissioned.

=+=List of TRMN Pinnaces==+

Name	Launch Date	Deommissioning Date	Commissioned as
Pinnace Hexapuma-01