I think the movie is the 1977 USA/Japanese co-production The Last Dinosaur. Rankin and Bass (of Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer fame) financed it. Your description of the ship matches well the Polar-Borer that takes the explorers through the Earth's crust to a prehistoric land in the Artic. Did the ship look like the one in the pictures below? The dinosaur does attack their ship at the beach and carries it away in its mouth, stranding them on the island.
The Last Dinosaur is a color movie. The effects are very much in the Toho style. The T-Rex is a very unconvincing man-in-a-suit. That is why you may associate the dinosaur with Godzilla. The movie never played in movie theaters in the states. I remember watching it repeatedly on network and local television in the late '70's and early '80's. It has a largely American cast, so the lead actors speak their own lines without dubbing.
Richard Boone stars as an oil tycoon (and big game hunter) who finances a scientific expedition to explore a recently discovered prehistoric land at the North Pole. A very active volcano has kept the area a tropical paradise for millennia and it is inhabited by prehistoric creatures and cave people. Both attack the expedition. Boone becomes increasingly more savage and threatens the other team members. All he wants to do is hunt and kill the last T-Rex on Earth, while the others want to recover their ship and escape. Joan Van Arc (from television's Knots Landing) plays the lead scientist.
The original, un-edited cut of the movie has been released on DVD. I found two good reviews of those DVDs here and here.
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I was 100 percent sure the title of this thing my dad rented for me in the late 80s was "Day of the Dinosaurs", but....I can't seem to find any film ever existing with this title. So I'm asking for help.I'll list first the memories of it that I am 90 percent or more sure of:It's cover art featured a brontosaur type dino with sharp, carnivore teeth, eating somebody.
It had a very gory scene towards the end where said carnivore plant-eater had its eyes gouged out by a pterosaur.
Less sure memories:
This movie was rated PG. My parents had a hard rule about no R-rated movies being taken home from the video store, which leads me to believe it was made in either the late 70s or early 80s; before the advent of PG-13.It was _not_ Planet of the Dinosaurs. This one was done with no stop-motion/Harryhausen stuffs. From my memories, it has Roger Corman/New World films written all over it, but there's nothing in their film catalogue that rings _any_ bells.
Any help resolving this brain worm immensely appreciated.
Edit: Just to narrow down/shoot down some obvious suggestions, it WAS NOT:
Dinosaurus. The Crater Lake Monster. Carnosaur. Planet of the Dinosaurs. Baby, Secret of the Lost Legend.