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At day-light, an advice-boat brought letters from Captain Morrice at Barbadoes, giving an account of the capture of the Diamond Rock, with the little garrison by which it was defended: and stating, also, that the French and Spanish squadrons had not sailed from

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

The Travailleur, however, being a side-wheel advice-boat designed for doing service at the port of Rochefort, presented none of those qualities that are requisite for performing voyages that are necessarily of long duration.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various

September twenty of the past year, six hundred and three, I wrote you by an advice-boat on which Gaspar Gomez, of the Society of Jesus, took passage for Nueva España, my resolution in regard to what you wrote me from Nueva España, when you went to take charge of that office, about the Ternate expedition.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

Admiral Knowles, who was cruising off the Havannah to intercept the expected Plate fleet, when a Spanish advice-boat brought into the squadron informed the admiral that the preliminary articles for a general peace were signed.

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

But such is the present condition of Chesapeake bay, that we cannot even get an advice-boat across it, with any certainty, much less adventure on transportation.

Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

The vessel which had been ransomed, was a government advice-boat, the fastest sailer the Spaniards possessed.

The Phantom Ship Frederick Marryat 1820

At last one day the superior sent for me, and told me that he was about to send an advice-boat to Lisbon, and I might take a passage if I wished; that it was a very small one, but a very fast sailer.

The Privateersman Frederick Marryat 1820

At last one day the superior sent for me, and told me that he was about to send an advice-boat to Lisbon, and I might take a passage if I wished; that it was a very small one, but a very fast sailer.

The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago Frederick Marryat 1820

Notice had been given by the advice-boat, as it appeared, and every craft large and small, was at anchor under the batteries.

The Phantom Ship Frederick Marryat 1820

He had demanded, that an advice-boat should be placed under his orders; and that rear-admiral Violette should have the command of his convoy.

Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II Pierre Alexandre ��douard Fleury de Chaboulon 1807