mail boat
- a variation of mailboat.
Example Sentences
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Captain Tracy Batteese shuttles people and goods to and from Isle au Haut on the mail boat, which also functions as the island’s de facto ambulance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Portpatrick, on the Galloway coast, was once a busy mail boat route to Donaghadee, in County Down.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2021
A single mother and “sixth-generation island girl,” Ms. Quinn, 50, is the first woman in her family to run the mail boat.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
The coronavirus also forced a change to the mail boat itself.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
This special railway service, with its connecting mail boat service across the Irish Channel gave the British public a full business day more to prepare their correspondence for the States.
From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir
