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
They are also very much chagrined with the Government for sending out to the fishing-banks a dispatch boat bearing the inappropriate name of "Frolic."
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870 by Various
Ignatieff had, on hearing of Pym's exploit, obtained from the grand vizier the permission that other ships might follow him, and dispatched at once the embassy dispatch boat with orders to Boutakoff to follow.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by Stillman, William James
The Milan, a new dispatch boat, has recently been making trial trips at Brest.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 by Various
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