The Collaborative International Dictionary
Storeship \Store"ship`\, n. A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.
Wiktionary
n. (label en nautical) A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, etc.
Usage examples of "storeship".
This force could be ready at Aldershot on August 10, and it was estimated that transports and storeships could sail from Liverpool on August 13 and troopships between the 19th and 23d, arriving at Dakar on the 28th, or at the other ports, Konakri and Duala, a few days later.
The second lieutenant, however, a man named Stepkyne, had qualified as a master's mate aboard an East Indiaman and had found his way in the King's service when appointed to a cumbersome storeship.
Government transports to Lisbon, government Storeships to Port Mahon, East India Company's ships — he could not take a man from any of those.
Captain Bolton must have completed his task of escorting the storeships into Port Mahon.
There were crushed fingers and crushed feet when ponderous casks of salted provisions were lowered into boats from the storeships and hauled up on to the decks of the fighting ships.