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  2. Post Office Packet Service - Wikipedia

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    Falmouth Packet Service memorial, The Moor. Packet boats, offering a regular scheduled mail service, had been in use for the route between Holyhead and Dublin (providing a mail connection between Britain and Ireland) since at least 1598; but for letters to and from continental Europe a different approach was taken: the post was entrusted to messengers, who would then make their own ...

  3. Packet trade - Wikipedia

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    A "packet ship" was originally a vessel employed to carry post office mail packets to and from British embassies, colonies and outposts. In sea transport, a packet service is a regular, scheduled service, carrying freight and passengers. The ships used for this service are called packet ships or packet boats.

  4. Rocket mail - Wikipedia

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    A surplus mail rocket is used to reach the Moon in Robert Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo (1947). Mail is delivered by rocket in an early chapter of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973). The character Pirate Prentice receives orders this way. RocketMail was the name for one of the first major, free webmail services.

  5. Piracy in the Atlantic World - Wikipedia

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    [36]: 160 As a result, a pirate captain had to be on the lookout for a vessel that would serve his purpose and procure the ship without harming it in such a way as to make it unfit for service. There is consensus among scholars that pirates would use both small vessels like a sloop or a full-rigged pinnace , as well as the larger slave ships ...

  6. Edward Low - Wikipedia

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    Edward Low (also spelled Lowe or Loe; c. 1690–1724) was a pirate of English origin during the latter days of the Golden Age of Piracy, in the early 18th century.Low was born into poverty in Westminster, London, and was a thief from an early age.

  7. Jean Lafitte - Wikipedia

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    Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte".

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