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Meanings of packet ship in English
Small boat designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation.
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Examples for "packet"
Examples for "packet"
1
I was handed this year's packet and given information about several open-houses.
2
Earlier this year, my dad sold his sugar packet collection on Ebay.
3
They compare notes on the best way to open a Reese packet.
4
Kim thought of the oilskin packet and the books in the food-bag.
5
The information packet was large and there were very many videos included.
1
On May 31st the paquebot was sighted near Point Pinos.
2
(* "Devait-il en temps de guerre conduire un paquebot?")
1
Orders from the bridge of the packet boat rang out over the water.
2
Three horses abreast could drag a packet boat some four miles an hour.
3
Again the packet boat was sighted on the distant horizon.
4
We were somewhere west of Jordan, when we met a packet boat going west.
5
She made arrangements for crossing in the packet boat, which then, as now, plied from Dover to Calais.
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True-Jimmyhad no respect for packet boats and deserved a good trouncing.
2
On these packet boats, too, I could talk with travelers, and try to strike the trail of John Rucker.
3
Harwich is known for being the port where the packet boats, between England and Holland, go out and come in.
1
It has usually been in the smoking-room of a local mail steamer.
2
The mail steamer Ariel Running between New York and Aspinwall, we captured.
3
The little mail steamer came hooting its way around the Point.
4
On the high seas he overhauled the British mail steamer, Trent.
5
Sir George Bowen arrived here by the mail steamer on the 15th ult.
1
The British and French mail steamers give the port a wide offing.
2
The mail steamers are protected by rifle guns and bodies of soldiers.
3
The contract then passed on to deal with the service of mail steamers.
4
There are regular mail steamers, once in two weeks, on four routes, viz.
5
I just come down the Coast on one of the Pacific mail steamers.
Usage of packet ship in English
1
The signing on of a packet ship was quite an historic occasion.
2
She proved to be the packet ship James Monroe, Captain Wilkinson, bound from Liverpool to New York.
3
But Captain Bob took this full-pooped old packet ship around the Horn and employed her in the China tea trade.
4
I returned in the packet ship Utica, sailing from Havre, and reaching New York after a passage of forty-two days.
5
I sailed in the packet ship Philadelphia from New York for Portsmouth, where we arrived after a passage of twenty-four days.
6
I'd never get on navigating a passenger boat, a packet ship, from Boston to San Francisco and San Francisco to Boston.
7
He had embarked in a packet ship from Liverpool bound for New York, where he arrived, at the expiration of five weeks.
8
The packet ships had held on too long.
9
The coasters and the famous Falmouth packet ships, who sailed with the tide in peace or war.
10
All the rebels, in truth, were sending back complaints, for the old and the new world sent little packet ships monthly.
11
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.
12
Written on board Packet Ship Algonquin, Captain Cheney-Bayof Delaware-pilotabout to quit the ship-two p.m.-June 21st, 1835.
13
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.
14
"Here it is," said Mr. Wyllys, reading from the paper the arrival of "'the Packet Ship Erie, Capt.