passage boat

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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

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

On Sept. 4th I went in a small steamer to Cronstadt, and then in the Vladimir to Swinemünde: we were then towed in a passage boat to Stettin, and I proceeded by railway to Berlin.

From Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy by Airy, George Biddell

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