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A repair ship is a naval auxiliary ship designed to provide maintenance support to warships. Repair ships provide similar services to destroyer, submarine and seaplane tenders or depot ships, but may offer a broader range of repair capability including equipment and personnel for repair of more significant machinery failures or battle damage.
Usage examples of "repair ship".
One-channel ansibles, tuned to the repair ship, could not be detected by other ships unless they knew the code.
With that Mallory turned and began to retrace their original line from the repair ship, not walking deliberately this time but moving in long, bounding strides through the low gravity.
The news that the nearest heavy repair ship could not reach them for three weeks had also caused a slump in morale.
He'd been ready to defend the CST, despite the attempts by Lafayette and Majestic to protect the wounded destroyer and her rafted repair ship.
That is why my father had to die when I was fourteen and able to repair Ship.
Two ex-Peep pirate vessels destroyed or captured, Emerald Dawn retaken (even if she was going to require the lengthy services of a well equipped repair ship before she ever left Nuncio again), and the meticulous updating of the Navy's astrography on the Nuncio System.
She could feel their stress through Nimitz, but she could also feel their growing triumph as the repair ship left her warships further and further astern.
We've had a tunnel drive failure, and we're looking for a port to await a repair ship.
They wouldnt send a deep-space repair ship unless Rosa Major couldnt make it back on her own.