Medium-sized boat designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation
1793 newspaper ad for a packet schooner, Chestertown, Maryland
Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation in European countries and in North American rivers and canals, some of them steam driven. They were used extensively during the 18th and 19th centuries and featured regularly scheduled service.
Steam driven packets were used extensively in the United States in the 19th century on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, supplying and bringing personnel to forts and trading posts.
Packet ships were put into use in the 18th century on the Atlantic Ocean between Great Britain and its colonies, where the services were called the packet trade.
Packetboats were medium-sized boats designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation in European countries and in North American rivers...
Generally, packet trade is any regularly scheduled cargo, passenger and mail trade conducted by boat or ship. The boats or ships are called "packetboats or packet...
using the AX25 protocol Packet trade, regularly scheduled cargo, passenger, and mail trade conducted by ship Packetboat, type of boat used for scheduled mail...
the Mississippi River. The boat was built in Louisiana and is operated by Padelford PacketBoat 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...
only on a temporary basis, should not be confused with packet ships—sometimes called packetboats or paquetbots—which were cargo ships which also routinely...
(Brussels), Belgium, in 1938, in the paquebot style, and has been nicknamed "PacketBoat" or "paquebot". It was designed by Joseph Diongre [fr], and selected...
Bristol PacketBoat Trips is a limited company offering public and charter excursions in Bristol Harbour and on the River Avon. The company has four boats: the...
1898, and operated on the non-tidal upper Thames by the Thames Steam PacketBoat Company. It is berthed at Runnymede. SL Nuneham was built at Port Brimscombe...
Rhode Island, in 1772. It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packetboat Hannah on June 9 off of Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by...
the name of "Mr. Smith". He fled to England with his wife on board a packetboat offered to him by the British consul at Le Havre. The National Assembly...
century, packet services out of Falmouth began to sail to the West Indies, North America and other transatlantic destinations. Packetboats, however,...
Ladi Geisler HMS Helena, name of various Royal Navy ships Helena, a packetboat, built in the United States in 1841 USS Helena, name of various United...
blockade runners, slave ships, smaller naval craft and opium clippers. Packetboats (built for the fast conveyance of passengers and goods) were often schooners...
completed for Britain's Great Central Railway in 1911.Bury was employed as a packetboat for the company between Harwich and the Hook of Holland for most of her...
born in Margate, England on 17 August 1799, the son of James Laming, a packetboat owner, and Sarah Walton.[citation needed] He had an elder brother James...
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