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n. (plural of hospital ship English)
Usage examples of "hospital ships".
Why, if we didn't have pick-up boats and hospital ships the men wouldn't—.
Some credulous fools actually believe the rumor that it is merely a complete 200%-scale replica of the Taj Mahal, built by enslaved Marines, but savvy jarheads know that it is actually a much vaster compound built out of construction materials stolen from Navy hospital ships, dotted with pleasure domes and fuck houses for his string of Asiatic concubines, with a soaring cupola so high that The General can go up there and see what the Nips are doing to his extensive real estate holdings in Manila, 1,500 miles to the northwest.
If they were going to station you aboard one of the hospital ships, I think your orders would have spelled that out.
Since most of the physical repair would be done in fugue anyway, it made some sense to let the old hospital ships work on the seriously wounded and the revivable dead.
And a steady stream of ambulances bringing the butcher's bill back to die hospital ships that could dock now that the port's defenses were supressed.
The attack force, which will be under Javier's command, with Lester as his second, will also be accompanied by a full press fleet train-repair ships, ammunition ships, hospital ships, everything.