packet boat in a sentence
Examples
- In 2009 she played the role of Queen in the film " Santa Claus and the Lost Packet Boat " from the same director.
- The first steam packet boats had entered service between Holyhead and Dublin in 1819 and soon they were operating out of Liverpool as well.
- The service was quite luxurious compared to some packet boat services : central heating was provided in winter and drinks were served on board.
- Before the advent of steam power, the towpaths allowed mules to pull passenger-carrying packet boats and barges carrying lumber, pork, whiskey, cheese, and wheat.
- The packet boats and barges were drawn at an average speed of four miles an hour by horse or mule teams on the towpath.
- Donaghadee was used in the 1759 1826 period by couples going to Portpatrick, Wigtown, Scotland to marry, as there was a daily packet boat.
- The canal opened on October 7, 1828 when the packet boat " Lady Carrington " arrived in Worcester, the first vessel to make the trip.
- In January 1826, the company prosecuted Hooton and Bradshaw for running a steam packet boat, which was forbidden by a regulation passed the previous May.
- You can also take a 90-minute voyage through a canal lock on an old-fashioned packet boat or book onto a small ship cruising the canal.
- Packet boats serving passengers exclusively reached speeds of up to five miles an hour and ran at much more frequent intervals than cramped, bumpy stages.