packet boat


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Noun1.Packet boat - a boat for carrying mailpacket boat - a boat for carrying mail    
boat - a small vessel for travel on water
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In one hour after, the ordinance was published in London that no vessel bound for France should leave port, not even the packet boat with letters.
Fisher at the helm of CHN, the organization that runs the popular Sam Patch, a 19th century replica packet boat that cruises the Erie Canal and Genesee River.
The pub was built in the 1800s and is said to have been named after a packet boat that would regularly leave Chester docks for Dublin.
The document claimed, "when he (Patrick) was liberated" the British Government "took pity and compassion on him." As the story continues, the next step for Patrick was being assigned to sail a "packet boat" in His Majesty's Service.
6), bedraggled passengers crowd the deck of the English cross-Channel packet boat as it enters harbour, with the Union flag flying from the peak of the gaff supporting its mainsail.
Wet Britches and Muddy Boots blends social, geographic and technological history into a people-based narrative that evokes the sights, sounds and smells of what it was really like to bounce in a stagecoach across the dusty plains, sail across the Mississippi in a packet boat, rock back and forth in a wooden day coach choked with dirty dust and cinders aboard an express train, or settle into the hold of a seagoing vessel as an immigrant in search of the New World.
A snow and ice warning is today in effect for Lancashire and there will possibly be disruption to the Steam Packet boat service between Liverpool and the Isle of Man.