Ships they're scrapping about to be saved

Usage examples of freighters.

The sisters and a few thousand others had waited out the destruction inside a small fleet of intrasystem ore freighters, then sneaked into space after the enemy abandoned the dead world.

Bateen wandered closer, curiosity and boredom drawing him to the show just as it had drawn the human beings waiting for the freighters, the Gypsy took an odd sort of reed flute from his pocket and began to play an odd, almost hypnotic tune that caused the other with him to begin a dance.

I will do my best, but even with the freighters and SBMHAWKs, Second Fleet will require at least four months to prepare the assault.