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Packet boat. Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation in European countries and in North American rivers and canals, some of them steam driven. They were used extensively during the 18th and 19th centuries and featured regularly scheduled service.
In sea transport, a packet service is a regular, scheduled service, carrying freight and passengers. The ships used for this service are called packet ships or packet boats. The seamen are called packetmen, and the business is called packet trade. "Packet" can mean a small parcel but, originally meant a parcel of important correspondence or ...
The Patrick Henry was a three-masted, square-rigged, merchant-class, sailing packet ship that transported mail, newspapers, merchandise and thousands of people from 1839 to 1864, during the Golden Age of Sail, primarily between Liverpool and New York City, as well as produce, grains and clothing to aid in humanitarian efforts during an Gorta Mór.
Packet boat; A. USS Active (1779) Albion Packet (1800 ship) Alnwick Packet (1802 ship) B. Berwick Packet (1798 ship) C. Caleb Grimshaw; Charles H. Marshall (ship)
Falmouth Packet Service memorial, The Moor. Packet boats, offering a regular scheduled mail service, had been in use for the route between Holyhead and Dublin (providing a mail connection between Britain and Ireland) since at least 1598; but for letters to and from continental Europe a different approach was taken: the post was entrusted to messengers, who would then make their own ...
40 ft (12 m) Depth of hold. 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) Notes. Signal letters J.G.Q.B. Charles H. Marshall was a 1683-ton packet ship built by William H. Webb in 1869. [1] Charles H. Marshall was the last packet designed and built for the Black Ball Line. [2] [3] It was also the last packet, and the last full-rigged ship, built in New York.
Exodus 1947 was a packet steamship that was built in the United States in 1928 as President Warfield for the Baltimore Steam Packet Company. From her completion in 1928 until 1942 she carried passengers and freight across Chesapeake Bay between Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland. From 1942 President Warfield served in the Second World ...
The Merlin-class packet boat of 1838 was a Sir William Symonds (the Surveyor of the Navy) design that was approved on 2 April 1838. [1] The vessels were to be built for steam mail packet service on the Liverpool to Dublin route. The initial two ships ( Merlin and Medusa) were ordered in the fall of 1838 from Pembroke Dockyard. [2]