ferryboat

Beset by financial hardship, in part because of a devastating injury in a ferryboat accident, Meucci was unable to afford the $10 fee to renew his caveat, which as a result expired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

The Spokane ferryboat, which just recently celebrated its 50th birthday, broke down while docked in the Edmonds Ferry Terminal.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

They will likely also know his life closely resembles Petterson’s: The author’s parents and brother died in a ferryboat fire that claimed 159 lives in 1990.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

I was watching a ferryboat waddle on the river when I heard a man with a slight British accent say, “Where have you been? I’ve been looking all over for you.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021

The old flatbed ferryboat had been functional just the day before, the commerçant claimed, but now it bobbed listlessly on the opposite shore in spite of his piercing whistles and waving arms.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The commission also oversees movers, brokers, ferryboats and wastewater.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026

“These ferryboats, to get them up to high speed, have fairly large diesel engines in them,” he said of Kitsap Transit’s current fleet.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

Most of them are teenage boys trying to sneak onto ferryboats to the mainland, where they hope to join family members or create a case for family reunification.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2018

When Northam was born in 1959, the area was connected to the rest of Virginia only by ferryboats; the 20-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel linked the region to Norfolk in 1964.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2017

The ferryboats crossed the wide river without mishap, and the party from Boston stepped out onto the shore at Wethersfield.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare