cockle-boat

In the winter of 1792, when we were on the eve of the revolutionary war, Nelson once more offered his services, earnestly requested a ship, and added, that if their lordships should be pleased to appoint him to a cockle-boat he should feel satisfied.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Poor little pigmy in a cockle-boat, I thought Creation was ringing with my name!

The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

Then, whilst the youngster slumbered heavily, he himself embarked in a cockle-boat and, unobserved, rowed quietly round the headland, into Clyffe cove, where he ran his boat into a safe creek he knew of, and jumped ashore.

The Haunted Cove 1921

The children were frightened, and hastily shoved off their little cockle-boat.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Various 1840

Admiral Legard's house; and as he settled himself in the seat, with his servant by his side, he said laughingly, "I almost fancy myself naughty master Lumley again in this young-man-kind of two-wheeled cockle-boat: not dignified, but rapid, eh?"

Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Admiral Legard's house; and as he settled himself in the seat, with his servant by his side, he said laughingly, "I almost fancy myself naughty master Lumley again in this young-man-kind of two-wheeled cockle-boat: not dignified, but rapid, eh?"

Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

We're good in emairgencies, the now; when the time comes when we get a glimmer that all life is emairgency and tremblin 'peril, that every turn may be the wrong turn -- when we can see that our petty system of suns and all is nobbut a wee darkling cockle-boat, driftin' and tossed abune the waves in the outmost seas of an onrushing universe -- hap-chance we'll no loom so grandlike in our own een; and we'll tak 'hands for comfort in the dark.

Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901