What is "shipboard"

Usage examples of "shipboard".

The front of his jump suit split open to reveal his thin powder-blue T-shirt, stained a shade deeper by sweat The lightweight silk-smooth garment might be ideal for shipboard use, and even in an arcology, but for dealing with raw nature it was ridiculous.

The lightweight silk-smooth garment might be ideal for shipboard use, and even in an arcology, but for dealing with raw nature it was ridiculous.

This seemed miraculous to those on shipboard, but Marconi accepted it as a matter of course.

The Starfleet officers knew already about the dangerously tight restrictions on shipboard navigational and defensive systems, but what with one thing and another involved in bringing the ship back from near-leave to fully operational status, none of those aboard Enterprise had been able to find the time to wade through reams of impenetrable officialese and learn what else was involved in General Order 12.

I were certified as a practitioner, could you teach me the Quadrivium shipboard?

They tell you everything in the Academy: leadership, communications, the precise form of a regimental parade, laser range-finding systems, placement of patches on uniforms, how to compute firing patterns for mortars, wine rations for the troops, how to polish a pair of boots, servicing recoilless rifles, delivery of calling cards to all senior officers within twenty-four hours of reporting to a new post, assembly and maintenance of helicopters, survival on rocks with poisonous atmosphere or no atmosphere at all, shipboard routines, and a million other details.

But now that it looked certain the Dyson aliens had been confined, shipboard speculation was heavily focused on the reason.

I had heard that shipboard romances could be really memorable occurrences, but the only person who I could find on deck at night was a wrinkled old dermatologist from Korea who spent the better part of a week trying to convince me that contrary to popular belief the earth was really flat, or at the very least built along the lines of a gently pitched roof.

The problem she would have in any encounter with the Furies would be the shipboard reaction.

Whole, or on shipboard en route to Kline Station, or anytime before the census courier left for Athos-ye gods, do you have any idea how many ships dock at Kline Station in the course of two months?

However, when Lieutenant Dunsinane told him that not only was he being relieved of some of his shipboard assignments so that he could accompany Mr.

But I noted last year that the smaller fortaleza is become little more than a crumbling and uncared-for ruin, bare of any ordnance, while the larger, the main castillo, though in fair repair, has been stripped of all save only the very largest pieces, mostly aged bombards not suitable for shipboard use, though very dangerous enough if one chances to sail within range of the stones they cast.

Pheylan could see that their jumpsuits were a different design from those his shipboard escort were wearing.

Captain, while it is equally sure, from the collateral evidence, that Master Mullens died on shipboard.

Knowing from his plain gray shipboards that he still could not wear the uniform, and remembering his fairness and honor, she felt a traitor.