Dispatch boat


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a swift vessel for conveying dispatches; an advice boat.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Because of his undoubted skills, Smalls was promoted to wheelman of the Planter, a Confederate steamer which served as the flagship and dispatch boat of Brig.
Copy transmitted by Naval Dispatch Boat Service (NDBS) will be censored in the U.K."