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It developed as a port for packet boats in the seventeenth century.

The packet boat and rail took over the cargo.

This occurred on 1 September 1842, after which the canal company withdrew its packet boat service.

The single doors depict mail delivery by packet boat and airplane.

The ships are called "packet boats" as their original function was to carry mail.

Mules and horses pulled the packet boats along the towpaths.

Though I believe the packet boats are verra safe, too.

"A fast packet boat arrived from Bombay this morning.

The postal lines of communication depended upon the Post Office packet boat system.

"And it's no true about the packet boats.

However, in 1822 a packet boat was bought as a joint venture by several tradesmen, and a weekly service to Hull began.

She was a former packet boat of 58 tons burthen, and carried six 4-pounder guns.

Packet boats traveled up and down the canal with sightseers and visitors on board.

Is that one of the packet boats?'

He didn't count their berth in the packet boat from Douglas to Liverpool.

The ships used for this service are called packet ships or packet boats.

Packet boats carried packages up to 112 lbs in weight as well as passengers at relatively high speed day and night.

The American canal packet boats were typically narrow (about 14 feet) to accommodate canals, but might be 70-90 feet long.

The formal opening took place in January 1829, when the Governor Brown was the first packet boat to go through the settlement.

It was heavily traveled by packet boats that carried people on day excursions as well as travelers across the state.

To hire a small ship-even a fishing smack-or take passage on a packet boat, though, was expensive business.

Pelts were traded or sold and wild animals were offered for sale to packet boat travelers.

The town supplied locally grown produce to packet boats to New York City starting in colonial times.

The packet boats and barges were drawn at an average speed of four miles an hour by horse or mule teams on the towpath.

Harwich is known for being the port where the packet boats, between England and Holland, go out and come in.