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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We left Klang in this beautiful steam-launch, the (so-called) yacht of the Sultan, at eight, with forty souls on board. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The Kinta is a steam-launch of the Perak Government. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Close to the opening lay a dark, dwarfish steam-launch, like a baby dragon with one red eye. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
On that date the American gunboat _Petrel_ and a large steam-launch suddenly appeared in Cebú harbour. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)
"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. ❋ Etta Blaisdell McDonald (N/A)
The child was ravished to death, and they were just digging a pit to bury the mother alive when she was rescued and brought to Manila in the steam-launch _Mariposa_ raving mad, disguised as a native woman. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)
I was told that three copies of _Punch_ were sent to the steam-launch proprietor on the day of publication .... ❋ M. H. Spielmann (N/A)
Hindhaugh had known well enough that it was a steam-launch that made the panting noise, and he got ready for the worst. ❋ Various (N/A)
Looking over the rail I found H.M.S. "Cornwallis" painted on his steam-launch. ❋ George Davidson (N/A)
_Concord_, with the little gunboat _Rápido_, and the captured (Spanish) gunboat _Callao_, and the armed steam-launch _Barceló_. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
But early in the morning of the 11th the steam-launch _Pitt_, whilst reconnoitring the harbour, was fired upon; the launch replied and withdrew. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)
Here he would have to spend the night in a dâk-bungalow -- or rest-house -- and cross the water in a steam-launch next morning. ❋ Gordon Casserly (N/A)
The three weeks 'detention came to an end, as everything earthly does, and then an open barge, towed by a steam-launch, conveyed us to ❋ G. Whitfield Ray (N/A)
Just before the attack on the city he went on board a German steam-launch which was waiting for him and was conveyed to the German cruiser _Kaiserin Augusta_, which at once steamed out of the bay northwards. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)
Ships at the anchorage communicated with the shore by their own boats or steam-launch, and the loading and discharging of vessels was chiefly effected in the bay, one to three miles off the river mouth, by means of lighters called _cascoes_. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)