steam-launch

A gondola is more beautiful, but the steam-launch takes one places, and an electric car is more comfortable than the hump of a camel.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

We left Klang in this beautiful steam-launch, the (so-called) yacht of the Sultan, at eight, with forty souls on board.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

The Kinta is a steam-launch of the Perak Government.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Close to the opening lay a dark, dwarfish steam-launch, like a baby dragon with one red eye.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

Like many other modern pleasure-yachts, the Dobryna, in addition to her four-oar, was fitted with a fast-going little steam-launch, its screw being propelled, on the Oriolle system, by means of a boiler, small but very effective.

Off on a Comet 2003

The steam-launch returned to Gourbi Island, and preparations were forthwith taken in hand for conveying man and beast, corn and fodder, across to the volcanic headland.

Off on a Comet 2003

“The yacht, I think,” said Procope, “had better remain where she is; the weather is beautifully calm, and the steam-launch will answer our purpose better; at any rate, it will convey us much closer to shore than the schooner.”

Off on a Comet 2003

The lawn was surrounded by shrubberies and plantations, and beyond it there was nothing to be seen except the opposite woods and the river, and sometimes boats passing by with a measured sound of oars in the rowlocks, or the temporary commotion of a little steam-launch.

The Invader A Novel

"I'm going to draw a picture of it for Mother," Gerda announced, and she sat still for a long time, making first one sketch and then another, -- a seal on a cake of ice, a lighthouse, a ship being dashed against the rocks, and a steam-launch cutting through the water, with a boy and girl on its deck.

Gerda in Sweden Etta Blaisdell McDonald

I was told that three copies of _Punch_ were sent to the steam-launch proprietor on the day of publication ....

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann