Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) Any vessel designed to carry cargo
WordNet
n. a ship design to carry cargo [syn: cargo ship]
Usage examples of "cargo vessel".
The ship was an ancient cargo vessel refitted specifically for Beacon.
She had adapted her new systems to the existing controls in the old cargo vessel.
If, by some chance, the rowdies returned to Arrakis City before his cargo vessel departed with its load of spice, those humbled men would crawl on their knees and beg him to take them back to the Thalim system.
A British dry-cargo vessel had been preparing to en-ter the Maas Estuary for Rotterdam when the 0900 call was made from the Freya to Maas Control.
Three days later in the same sector, Commander Kirby and Rookie One intercept a garbled distress call from the Corellian cargo vessel Corellia Star, which is seemingly under attack by invisible forces.
It was evidently most unusual for a cargo vessel to require a credit voucher, but Zainal had a story ready for that.
Not content with converting the craft's very considerable hold -- it was, after all, originally constructed as a cargo vessel -- into cabins and bathrooms, he had constructed on the deck a bridge, saloon and galley which, while admittedly functional, detracted notably from the overall aesthetic effect.