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
Was the mail boat faring better, too, I wondered?
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
When she vacationed with a friend on a remote island off the Maine coast this summer, the mail boat delivered Blue Apron meal kits.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2016
It was upon these reefs that, in 1826, the “Maria” mail boat was wrecked, and, with her hapless crew, went to the bottom.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
