Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed mainly for domestic mail and freight transport in European countries and in North American rivers and canals...

using the AX25 protocol Packet trade, regularly scheduled cargo, passenger, and mail trade conducted by ship Packet boat, type of boat used for scheduled mail...

Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening is an 1826 landscape painting by the British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner. It shows a scene...

Generally, packet trade is any regularly scheduled cargo, passenger and mail trade conducted by boat or ship. The boats or ships are called "packet boats or packet...

Bristol Packet Boat Trips is a limited company offering public and charter excursions in Bristol Harbour and on the River Avon. The company has four boats: the...

The Dort, or Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed is an 1818 painting by J. M. W. Turner, based on drawings made by him in...

only on a temporary basis, should not be confused with packet ships—sometimes called packet boats or paquetbots—which were cargo ships which also routinely...

the Mississippi River. The boat was built in Louisiana and is operated by Padelford Packet Boat Company. In 2004, the boat participated in the Grand Excursion...

Exodus 1947 was a packet steamship that was built in the United States in 1928 as President Warfield for the Baltimore Steam Packet Company. From her...

1898, and operated on the non-tidal upper Thames by the Thames Steam Packet Boat Company. It is berthed at Runnymede. SL Nuneham was built at Port Brimscombe...

Liverpool Packet was originally the American slave ship Severn, built at Baltimore and captured in 1811. She became a privateer schooner from Liverpool...

Alps, 1812, oil on canvas, Tate Britain Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed, 1818, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British...

(Brussels), Belgium, in 1938, in the paquebot style, and has been nicknamed "Packet Boat" or "paquebot". It was designed by Joseph Diongre [fr], and selected...

near original operating condition. Maria is currently owned by Ashton Packet Boat Company. It is sometimes loaned to the Horseboating Society and has taken...

result that packet ships did get involved in naval engagements with enemy warships and privateers, and were occasionally captured. Packet boats, offering...

Rhode Island, in 1772. It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet boat Hannah on June 9 off Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham...

1801 packet boats drawn by four horses ran from Paddington Basin on the edge of London to the 'turning point' docks at Cowley Peachey. Packet Boat Lane...

Queen Charlotte was a Falmouth packet boat, launched in 1807 at Falmouth. She was wrecked at Lisbon in 1814. Queen Charlotte made only one voyage across...

San Carlos was a Spanish packet boat built in 1767 at San Blas, Mexico. In 1775, under the command of Spanish naval officer and explorer Lieutenant Juan...

Lee was a fast paddle-steamer, originally built as a Glasgow-Belfast packet boat named Giraffe, which was bought as a blockade runner for the Confederate...

sketches. Having transferred to the pilot boat he nearly drowned while getting ashore. It shows a British packet boat arriving in the harbour. Turner's contemporary...

the show boat with Cap'n Andy, where she gives birth to a daughter, Kim. About five years pass. Ravenal is gambling on board a packet boat, on which...

following classifications of boats originally defined for the canal were as follows: Packet Boats, for passengers Freight boats Scows, especially work scows...

Townshend Packet (Townsend Packet) was launched at Falmouth in 1800 as a packet for the Post Office Packet Service. She made numerous voyages between Falmouth...

Halifax merchants with government support as the Nova Scotia Packet, to establish a reliable packet service of mail and passengers between Halifax and Boston...

of vehicles including tractor-trailers.[citation needed] Dispatch boat Packet boat Royal Mail Ship, ships authorized by the British Royal Mail to courier...

Romanesque secular and domestic architecture "Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening," an 1826 painting by J.M.W. Turner in the Frick Collection...

wood-hulled paddle steamer, built in 1835 at Harwich, England for steam packet services from Dover to London and to Boulogne. A successful fast ship, she...

HMS Merlin was the name ship of her class of three 2-gun paddle packet boats built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. She was converted into a survey...

The Jersey Packet was a small 18th-century sloop of 80 tons burden. She appears to have started life as a packet boat plying between Jersey in the Channel...