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Dispatch boat was a term used by the United States Navy in its journal accounts to describe boats which carried messages, or mail—otherwise termed dispatches—between high-ranking military officials aboard other ships or to land-based destinations.
A French aviso colonial of the Bougainville class The Portuguese aviso NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, in 1932. An aviso was originally a kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication.
Dispatch boat is a U.S. Navy vessel used to deliver messages (dispatches) between ship and shore or ship to ship. Dispatch boats -- small and swift moving ships -- were in use until their need was replaced by the use of radio, which was introduced on ships during World War I.
USS Dolphin (PG-24) was a gunboat/dispatch vessel; the fourth ship of the United States Navy to share the name. Dolphin was the first U.S. Navy ship to fly the flag of the president of the United States during President Chester A. Arthur's administration, and the second Navy ship to serve as a presidential yacht.
USS Sam Houston was a small (66-ton) schooner captured by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War.. She served the Union Navy during the blockade of ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America as a ship's tender, pilot boat, and dispatch boat, but also as a gunboat when the occasion presented itself.
USS Alert was a 90 long tons (91 t) steamship named A. C. Powell purchased by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War.. A. C. Powell – later renamed Alert, and still later renamed Watch – served primarily as a tugboat, but at times she performed duty as a dispatch boat, ship's tender, and even as a gunboat despite the fact that she had on board only a howitzer ...
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Throughout the Civil War, King Philip was used as a dispatch boat, shuttling mail, supplies, and passengers between Washington, D.C., and Union ships on the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers. In 1862 she served as a temporary home for the crew of the famous USS Monitor while they were waiting for their ship to be repaired and refitted. [1]