dispatch boat

How to use dispatch boat in a sentence

• A scout brought word to Pontiac that a dispatch boat with a large store of provisions was on her way to the fort.

  Four American Indians | Edson L. Whitney

• It proved to be a Confederate dispatch boat on its way up the river to warn the fleet that Sherman and his army had arrived.

  A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry | Julian Wisner Hinkley

• This meeting between General Buell and myself was on the dispatch-boat used to run between the landing and Savannah.

  Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete | Ulysses S. Grant

• Was it for this that he had come from the fleet in the dispatch boat, and was braving all dangers?

  The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. | Various

• “The dispatch boat, sir,” said the officer of the deck, touching his cap.

  A. D. 2000 | Alvarado M. Fuller