coal-lighter

Updated: July 31, 2026

Jukes reflected rapidly that this second mate was a mean little beast, and in his heart he wished poor Jack Allen had never smashed himself up in the coal-lighter.

Joseph Conrad - Typhoon

So the would-be murderers of John Robin Ross-Ellison Ilderim Dost Mahommed unintentionally saved him from jail, but never received his acknowledgments.... Discharged from the hospital, Moussa became his own master, a gentleman at large, and, for a time, prospered in the coal-trade. He steered a coal-lighter that journeyed between the shore and the ships.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life