Meanings of packet ship in English

The signing on of a packet ship was quite an historic occasion.

She proved to be the packet ship James Monroe, Captain Wilkinson, bound from Liverpool to New York.

But Captain Bob took this full-pooped old packet ship around the Horn and employed her in the China tea trade.

I returned in the packet ship Utica, sailing from Havre, and reaching New York after a passage of forty-two days.

I sailed in the packet ship Philadelphia from New York for Portsmouth, where we arrived after a passage of twenty-four days.

I'd never get on navigating a passenger boat, a packet ship, from Boston to San Francisco and San Francisco to Boston.

He had embarked in a packet ship from Liverpool bound for New York, where he arrived, at the expiration of five weeks.

The packet ships had held on too long.

The coasters and the famous Falmouth packet ships, who sailed with the tide in peace or war.

All the rebels, in truth, were sending back complaints, for the old and the new world sent little packet ships monthly.

A line of packet ships was projected, and in part established some thirty-five years ago, between Boston and Liverpool, by some public-spirited merchants.

Written on board Packet Ship Algonquin, Captain Cheney-Bayof Delaware-pilotabout to quit the ship-two p.m.-June 21st, 1835.

It remained for the Dreadnought, Captain Samuel Samuels, in 1859, to set the mark for packet ships to Liverpool at thirteen days and eight hours.

"Here it is," said Mr. Wyllys, reading from the paper the arrival of "'the Packet Ship Erie, Capt.