单词 | advice ship |
释义 | > as lemmasadvice ship C2. attributive. Designating various kinds of light fast boat used as dispatch-boats; esp. in advice boat, advice ship. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > communication vessel or dispatch boat patache1589 advicec1595 adviser?1616 adviso1624 advice boat1652 dispatch1694 aviso1714 dispatch-boat1794 dispatch-vessel1809 1652 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 159. 2497 We do not yet hear of the Advice Frigot with 24 guns in her. 1666 London Gaz. lxvi/2 A Pleasure-Boat..after ten hours chace, put on shore near this Harbor, a Dutch Advice-Yacht. 1668 London Gaz. ccxxxviii/3 All these Men of War are to be attended by a proportionable number of Galliots, Advice Boats, and Victuallers. 1692 N. Crouch Hist. O. Cromwel 99 The English were but thirty eight sail, four Fireships, and four Advice-ships. 1728 W. Betagh Voy. round World i. 116 We all..had our passage to Cales in a Spanish advice-boat, call'd the Flying-fish. 1785 Whitehall Evening-post 21–23 July An advice-yacht has been lately launched. 1805 Times 5 July 2/4 The Captain of the advice yacht set off directly for Madrid. 1847 Merchants' Mag. Nov. 521 The composition of the fleet..is 6 ships of the line, 9 frigates, 22 corvettes, 30 brigs and advice ships, [etc.]. 1921 Bull. Pan Amer. Union 52 412 The hydrographic boats,..the auxiliary Ingeniero Iribas and the advice boat Gaviota. 2002 R. J. Barendse Arabian Seas 313 The advice frigates, fast ships that were specially dispatched to convey important messages to Portugal. < as lemmas |
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