WordNet
n. a whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea
Wikipedia
A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales. Modern factory ships are automated and enlarged versions of the earlier whalers and their use for fishing has grown dramatically. Some factory ships are equipped to serve as a mother ship.
Usage examples of "factory ship".
Owen liked the aliens that the Prologue talks about, who had built the robot factory ship, suffered from cost accountants, and who had conceived an alien counterpart of Murphy.
I even found her mending a tear in one of his shirts on the day we had to put back to the factory ship to refuel.
The catcherboat veered off, while winches far back on the factory ship's trawl deck started hauling the line in.
What she was planning to do, she said, was get work aboard a fish processor, which is a kind of big factory ship that goes to sea for months at a time, catching thousands of pounds of cod and haddock and processing them right on board into frozen fillets and fish sticks.
They must have cast off from the factory ship right under Kruder's nose.
The fight shifted as the crew of the factory ship soon discovered that several tons of killer whale jumping at one's face inevitably had serious effects-on one's aim.
So many birds arrived, some dropping wholesale in flocks, others wheeling individually out of the mist, that Arkady was put in mind of the factory ship he had spent part of his exile on, and how gulls mobbed the air above the stem for the overflow and refuse from the nets.
Later, it returns to its catch and tows it back to the factory ship.
Arkady knew a man on a factory ship in the Bering Sea, a killer, who had fallen in love with a woman, a whore who died at sea.
The pilot had enough altitude that even with a full load, he didn't plummet straight on to the factory ship.
What was the complicated electronic equipment that technicians were installing in the great converted hold of the factory ship?