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"It's a question, 'What time is the mail boat?' "
The mail boats are also hauling more parts and supplies to the passing ships.
We could take the mail boat down the coast to capetown, Anna suggested.
I'll find something even if it is only a deckhand on the mail boat.
"You just made the mistake of anchoring on the day the mail boat arrived, Bart."
"Thank goodness we have the mail boat for a ferry," my new friend shuddered.
Local boats, including the mail boat, are hauled out of the water.
The mail boat was still there-anarmorclad tied up beside her.
I expect an old Indian friend home by the mail boat that arrives tonight.
She came to visit me an hour before the mail boat left for Singapore.
The packet boat and rail took over the cargo.
She was a former packet boat of 58 tons burthen, and carried six 4-pounder guns.
It developed as a port for packet boats in the seventeenth century.
Mules and horses pulled the packet boats along the towpaths.
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.
However, in 1822 a packet boat was bought as a joint venture by several tradesmen, and a weekly service to Hull began.
He didn't count their berth in the packet boat from Douglas to Liverpool.
A fast packet boat arrived from Bombay this morning.
And it's no true about the packet boats.