passage boat

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This schooner was something less than a Gravesend passage boat, being only of twenty-nine tons burthen; and therefore it required some consideration before acceding to the proposal.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 by Flinders, Matthew

She was "something less than a Gravesend passage boat" and hardly better suited for the effort than a canal barge.

From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Having stayed one week at Sheerness, and laid down my plan of future action, I started in the passage boat for Chatham.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

As they cleared, the private passage boat belonging to a nobleman swept up near to them and crossing their track took the same direction several hundred yards nearer the Libyan shore.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth