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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June 1, 2023 - It’s hard to believe some of them were made less than 20 years before the special effects of Jurassic Park changed the game for dinosaur (and other) movies, but most still look pretty good to me, perhaps largely, but not entirely, because I’m looking at them through the lens of nostalgia. Cowboys meet dinosaurs in The Valley of Gwangi (Courtesy Everett Collection) My all-time favorite old-school dino movie is also one of the most delightfully unique ones.
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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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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985) ⭐ 5.1 | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
March 22, 1985 - SO WHAT? It's a kids' movie!!! I saw this film when it first came out and loved it. You have to be a total SOB to let below average film making get in the way of enjoying this flick about lovable young scientists trying to save a cute baby dinosaur from poachers.
Release date   Mar 22, 1985
Duration   01:35:00
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June 22, 2018 - Frustratingly, the ’92 version features a similar love triangle (this time it’s between Ted, a female native guide named Malu and a female adventurer named Jenny) with even less dinosaur action than the older version. Plus, the production quality of the ’92 version is worse in general than the ’25 version so any dino action you do see is disappointing. I honestly don’t understand why they even made this movie.
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January 21, 2025 - With its vibrant animation and emotionally resonant storytelling, The Land Before Time continues to enchant and inspire generations of dinosaur enthusiasts and movie lovers alike.
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March 30, 2024 - In Baby’s Day Out (1994), a gorilla successfully protects a little kid from gangsters, and I'm a grown-ass man, crying over a kids movie, because... Harambe would be proud ... List of every dinosaur movie.
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March 15, 2023 - Right from the start, we’re treated to a plasticine theropod (that looks like a new, terrifying form of Morph, and also like a Neave Parkerish Megalosaurus) hunting Iguanodon, and while it might look rather dodgy today, I can imagine kids in the 1980s being enthralled by it. Even in the ’90s, there was still so little naturalistic dinosaur animation out there (as opposed to old movies in which they menaced humans) that I ate up everything I could find.
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