boatage

Example Sentences

• "At the verge of the town we had the misert of embarking on board another ferry-boat, the danger and destruction of horses; […] for they are oblig'd to leap out of, and into, deep water. […] This bad boatage, over a stream one mile broad is one of the causes of a new London road being open'd thro Llanwrst, which in a short time will eclipse the old Chester road."
• "Droict de Rivage. Shorage, or Boatage; the Cuſtome, or Toll for vvine, or other vvares, put vpon, or brought from, the vvater, by boats."
• "Passengers by Steam on the Quarter Deck, and in the Best Cabin, Boatages to and from the Vessel included."
• "The Stockton organ was financed partly by the sale of pews in the newly erected organ gallery and partly by subscription. Around 80 subscribers (including Lord Darlington) subscribed £250 12s.; [Thomas] Griffin was paid £200 for building the organ and the rest of the money went towards boatage and porterage, painting and gilding, and the cost of hiring [John] Garth and the Durham singers to perform at the dedication."
• "The Titanic’s boatage and flotation equipment were also well above minimum requirements. She carried 3,560 life belts; 48 life buoys; 14 30-foot lifeboats; 2 emergency cutters; and 4 Englehardt collapsible rafts."
• "For the Tovvn of Perith in Cumberland, he [William Strickland] cut a paſſage vvith great Art, Induſtry, and Expence, from the Tovvn into the river Petterill for the conveiance of Boatage into the Iriſh ſea."