Some details from Wallace's rough draft were dropped, such as his boatload of escaped convicts. Finally, another boatload of women (plus a couple of crewmen) arrive from Bobbie's ship. Previously, they said, the trains pulled out with only one boatload of passengers. One day, he saves a boatload of gunpowder from sabotage. The passport helped and with Covington he managed to escape in a boatload of refugees. He's brought grace and glory and a beautiful boatload of friends & family. After arriving in Naples with a boatload of American troops in November 1944. A boatload of coal was taken up the river in 1764 as a test.