dispatch boat

noun

Nautical.

1. a small, fast boat used for delivering dispatches.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dispatch boat¹

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

Wharton. ÷ boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat.

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An advice boat, or dispatch boat.

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During the night the dispatch boat, Pioneer, had proceeded up the river, and began dropping 13-inch shells in among the rebel flags.

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Accordingly Mrs. Straus and I started from Constantinople on March 7th in the embassy dispatch boat, Scorpion, a ship of about seven hundred and fifty tons, manned by a crew of seventy-five or eighty bluejackets.

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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.

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