coasting-vessel

In August, his father took him on a coasting-vessel.

A Simple Soul 2003

Hidden behind the horse, I heard enough of their conversation to know that I had narrowly escaped discovery before I went on board the coasting-vessel.

Armadale 2003

My father was the owner of a small coasting-vessel, and of course was often away from home for weeks and sometimes for months together.

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

The Ella had been a coasting-vessel, carrying dressed lumber to South

The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

Many a coasting-vessel was sent to Halifax to swell the coffers of the British prize-courts, or, after being set on fire, was left to lie charred and ruined upon the rocky shore, as a warning to all who violated the blockade.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

A coasting-vessel drawing five feet of water will anchor off Apalachee Bay in eight feet of water, at the commencement of a "norther," and in four or five hours, unless the crew put to sea, the vessel will be left upon the dry bottom of the

Four Months in a Sneak-Box 1869

One pleasant morning, six years before the date at which this story commences, a small coasting-vessel drew up at a North River pier in the lower part of the city.

Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves Horatio Alger 1865

I asked, and I proceeded to explain, that having done my business, I had been drawn back to the harbour by all the attractions shipping has for me, and had there been accosted by the mate of a coasting-vessel bound for New York with salt fish, who was in want of hands both to load and man her.

We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

From this time forth my rambles became more frequent and, as I grew older, more distant, until at last I had wandered far and near on the shore and in the woods around our humble dwelling, and did not rest content until my father bound me apprentice to a coasting-vessel and let me go to sea.

The Coral Island 1859

There are ships here of every shape and size -- from the little coasting-vessel to the great East Indiaman, which, in its unfinished condition, looks like the skeleton of some dire megatherium of the antediluvian world.

Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships R. [Illustrator] Richardson 1859