packet boat

The cook, a native of Harwich, sent up word of a night packet-boat starting at about eleven o'clock last year.

The packet-boat, he maintained, had not a proper Algerine pass, and therefore had been lawfully seized.

A little way up the river they passed the packet boat, a little belated and heavily laden, but moving steadily.

Then he had attempted many callings—apothecary's apprentice, usher,10 book-keeper in a packet-boat on the Upper Seine.

A voyage in an ordinary sailing-vessel, which is not a packet-boat, is as wearisome a thing as can be well conceived.