packet boat

Example Sentences

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The grueling trip will require enduring three tedious weeks of crude travel conditions via coal-fueled locomotive, mule-drawn Erie Canal packet boat, steamship and wagon train.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2023

But if I hadn’t kept a close eye on our son, he would have ended up on a packet boat to New Guinea.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2012

Maggie, Kate, Leah, Mother, and Calvin traveled by packet boat over 200 miles east to Albany, the capital city of New York State.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

She, Lizzie, and two female friends boarded a nighttime Erie Canal packet boat.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Not much is known of this boat except that she beat the regular Irish packet boat, running between Holyhead and Dublin, in a race each way, winning a £20 wager.

From Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Chapelle, Howard I. (Howard Irving)