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n. A ship used to transport supplies to offshore installations such as oil and gas platforms.
Usage examples of "supply vessel".
It took only a few minutes of this bombardment before the core of the protostar lit up again even more brightly as one supply vessel after another disintegrated in the heat of its own detonating cargo.
He serviced engines and deck gear, and as luck would have it one of the boats he was working on at the moment was an oil rig supply vessel in for emergency replacement of a fractured prop shaft.
A sister ship of the Banner, the Pueblo was built in 1944 as a general-purpose supply vessel for the U.
Only after he had broken away from the supply vessel and was heading deeper into the Belt did he open the packet and remove the chip it contained.
And each ship in the small flotilla had its own supply vessel full to the brim with ammunition.
About an hour later, Salaam, Baris, and Shafik disembarked from the supply vessel.
When the next supply vessel arrives we will relay news of this awkward development back to headquarters.
The Monitor Corps supply vessel Trosshannon plied the threecornered route between Nidia, Melf, and Sector General.