passage boat

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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

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

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

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

The next day, feeble and alone, he set out, with fifty wearisome miles to walk before he could reach Burlington, whence he was told that a passage boat would take him to Philadelphia.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke