dispatch boat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dispatch boat
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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The Optimist was once a dispatch boat, known as the Delphin, for the German navy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Wharton. ÷ boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
A scout brought word to Pontiac that a dispatch boat with a large store of provisions was on her way to the fort.
From Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola by Perry, F. M. (Frances Melville)
The dispatch boat succeeded again to-day in opening communication with Havana, and your correspondent brought away with him the morning papers of yesterday.
From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by White, Trumbull
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