dispatch boat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dispatch boat
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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When Japan silenced the wireless on the London Times's dispatch boat, the News was left with the only working press craft in the Yellow Sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Optimist was once a dispatch boat, known as the Delphin, for the German navy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Was it for this that he had come from the fleet in the dispatch boat, and was braving all dangers?
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various
See Revival meetings Psyche, English dispatch boat, at Crete Public School Society in New York Pulzsky, Franz, Kossuth's colleague Puritans, rigor of their rule in Massachusetts Putnam, G.P.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by Stillman, William James
"Just gone out in the dispatch boat to the fleet."
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various
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