The phrase "a boat containing a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a boat that has something or someone inside it.
Example: "We spotted a boat containing a family of four enjoying a sunny day on the lake."
Alternatives: "a boat filled with a" or "a boat holding a".
School rules advised undressed boys to jump in the water if a boat containing ladies passed by.
Among them is an incident said to have taken place on Thursday when a boat containing around 120 people from the Rohingya and Kaman Muslim communities tried to flee Kyauk Pyu.
Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend when a boat containing 700 people capsized.
"Fresh Off the Boat" contains a lot of salty food-minded writing, the best of it totally unprintable here.
Ending in controversy, his last domestically written editorial for El Espectador was a series of fourteen news articles in which he revealed the hidden story of how a Colombian Navy vessel's shipwreck "occurred because the boat contained a badly stowed cargo of contraband goods that broke loose on the deck".
In the same series, we saw Mitt and Ann Romney zipping across the water on a jet ski followed by boats containing a security detail.
Searching further, Nate and Sully discover a long-abandoned Kriegsmarine U-boat containing a missing page from the Drake diary that points to a southern tropic island in the Pacific where the statue was likely taken.
King despatched boats containing a prize crew and removed most of the prisoners from Waakzaamheid, placing them below decks on Sirius.
A slice of approximately 0.2 cm from each filter was placed in a platinum boat containing manganese dioxide.
The substrate was located on a source boat containing 1 1 mixture of ZnO and graphite powders; the latter was employed for carbothermal reduction.
