Note 4 at Ac 27:16: Clauda was a small island lying about thirty miles off the southern coast of Crete (see note 10 at Ac 27:7). The ship Paul was sailing on to Rome got caught in a storm and sailed south of this island. It was as Paul's ship came under the lee of Clauda that the crew was able to haul in their lifeboat (see note 5 at this verse).

Note 5 at Ac 27:16: The boat being spoken of is considered by most scholars to be a small lifeboat that ships like these towed behind them in the wake of the ship. When they sailed under the lee of the island of Clauda (see note 4 at this verse), they were granted enough relief from the storm to haul the lifeboat on board.