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Packet boat - Wikipedia
Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed mainly for domestic mail and freight transport in European countries and in North American rivers and canals.
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Packet Boats - The Erie Canal
Both passenger boats (called "packets" or "packet boats"), usually horse-drawn, and working boats (also called "line boats" or "freighters"), drawn by either ...
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Definition of packet ship or packet liner - ThoughtCo
Packet ships, packet liners, or simply packets, were sailing ships of the early 1800s that did something which was novel at the time: they departed from port ...
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packet-boat
packet-boat [f. packet n. + boat n. Hence, F. paquebot, in 1634 paquebouc (Cleiriac Termes de Marine 35), in Dict. Acad. 1718 paquet-bot.] A boat or vessel plying at regular intervals between two ports for the conveyance of mails, also of goods and passengers; a mail-boat. (Often shortened to packet...
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PACKET BOAT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a boat (as originally a fast sailing ship) chartered by a government to carry mail and dispatches letters conveyed by government packet boats or by ordinary ...
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Packet trade - Wikipedia
Generally, packet trade is any regularly scheduled cargo, passenger and mail trade conducted by boat or ship. The boats or ships are called "packet boats or ...
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Packet boat
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See also
Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers
Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic packet)
Flagey building in Brussels, nicknamed "Packet Boat"
Ocean
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The Packet Boat-Transportation By Canal - Back in Time
The smaller packet boats, or later known as canal boats, were used to carry mail, cargo, and passengers using the canals and rivers.
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Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening, 1826
The ferry boat carrying female tourists to shore is about to break the spell. One critic noted that “it is impossible to shut our eyes to the wonderful skill, ...
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Packet Boats and Line Boats on the Erie Canal - Chris Andrle
The fare on the packet boats, with board and lodging, was usually four cents a mile. On the line boats the charge was 1 1/2 cents a mile without ...
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Erie Canal Passenger (Packet) Boat: Exterior Plan and Elevations
Title, Erie Canal Passenger (Packet) Boat: Exterior Plan and Elevations. Description, Design drawing depicting a packet boat named ""Star of the West"" from ...
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The Charles Cooper: The Only Surviving American Packet Ship
It is the best surviving wooden square-rigged American merchant ship. Built for New York's South Street packet trade, the vessel voyaged around the world during ...
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Merlin-class packet boat
The Merlin-class packet boat of 1838 was a Sir William Symonds (the Surveyor of the Navy) design that was approved on 2 April 1838. The vessels were to be built for steam mail packet service on the Liverpool to Dublin route.
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Bristol Packet Boat Trips
Bristol Packet Boat Trips is a limited company offering public and charter excursions in Bristol Harbour and on the River Avon. It operated as a public ferry for 6 months, but fuel was expensive, and the boat was transferred to Bristol Packet for private hire.
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Dispatch boat
Dispatch boats, which performed their dispatch-carrying duties only on a temporary basis, should not be confused with packet ships—sometimes called packet was a US dispatch boat during World War I.
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