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1471 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 100/2 Þat certain lordes..& burowis ger mak or get schippis buschis & vþer gret pynk botis witht nettes & al abilȝementis ganing þarfor for fysching.

1545 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 792 They mete also three Flemishe pynckes, laden with pouderd codde.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie P 349 A Pinke: a little shippe.

1664 Keymer's Observ. Dutch Fishing in Phenix (1721) I. 228 Above 1000 Sail of Pinks, Welboats, Dogger boats take Cod, Ling, and other Fish there.

1688 London Gaz. No. 2352/3 The Pink lost her Top-mast and Sprit-sail, had her Main-Yard broke, and her Hull and Rigging very much torn.

1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II. (at cited word) The Bends and Ribs compassing so as that her Sides buldge out very much; wherefore these Pinks are difficult to be boarded. They are often used for Store-Ships, and Hospital-Ships, in the Fleet.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 236 Pinks are mediterranean-vessels, and differ from the Xebec only in being more lofty, and not sharp in the bottom, as they are vessels of burthen. They have long narrow sterns, and three masts, carrying latteen-sails.

1823 W. Scott Peveril II. vi. 143 Suppose me..detained in harbour by a revenue pink.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Pink, an old-fashioned type of collier vessel, familiar on the Tyne until about the middle of the present century.

1974 Country Life 24 Jan. 127/1 Some lobster boats..in Prince Edward Island still have pointed sterns and are locally known by the 18th-century term for a pointed sterned boat and are called ‘pinks’.

1981 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 36 75 A pink was a type of square-rigged vessel having a narrow overhanging stern and with bulging sides to provide ample space for stores.