dispatch-boat

This meeting between General Buell and myself was on the dispatch-boat used to run between the landing and Savannah.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

On the way up the river I directed the dispatch-boat to run in close to

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

A dispatch-boat was attached to each of the leading divisions, and the scout "Stadion," the swiftest vessel in the fleet, was at the immediate disposal of the admiral, and was sent on in advance.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

For that port, therefore, the British fleet immediately steered: but was met by a dispatch-boat, on the 22d of April, from the Russian Ambassador at

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

As soon as possible I took a dispatch-boat thence to Washington City.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

With the fleet there was a little steam propeller dispatch-boat -- the first vessel of the kind I had ever seen, and probably the first of its kind ever seen by any one then with the army.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

As to the fellow boasting to him that the tartane was a dispatch-boat and had already made some trips, well, Symons begged his honour to believe that the beggar was not sober at the time.

The Rover 1923

No! Against the enemy whom we cannot arrest and render amenable to the laws, it is both right and necessary to maintain a force, to send war-ships, and to contribute war-funds: but against one of ourselves, a decree, an impeachment, a dispatch-boat [n] will answer our purpose.

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

A dispatch-boat had come down from Durell to say that, in spite of his advanced squadron,

The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolf William Charles Henry Wood 1905

The captain of the dispatch-boat lost not an instant in heading his ship direct for the spot from which the rockets had been seen to rise.

A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas Harry Collingwood 1886