Crossword clues for troopship
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Troopship \Troop"ship`\, n. A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport. [Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. A ship used to transport military troops.
WordNet
n. ship for transporting troops
Wikipedia
A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime. Operationally, standard troopships – often drafted from commercial shipping fleets – cannot land troops directly on shore, typically loading and unloading at a seaport or onto smaller vessels, either tenders or barges.
Attack transports, a variant of ocean-going troopship adapted to transporting invasion forces ashore, carry their own fleet of landing craft. Landing ships beach themselves and bring their troops directly ashore.
Usage examples of "troopship".
His appearance, his whole bearing reminded me of Anzac Day and those pictures of floods of khaki wading ashore at Suvla Bay from old coal-burning troopships.
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.
It was more prosaic than that: it was the route the troopships took to the south.
I saw no more troopships, although I was always on my guard for their passing or arrival.
Not nearly so many as the Armadas, but they included no troopships, no missionary ships, nor nearly as many supply ships.
There were crewmen on the troopships who made sure of it, after we woke up.
Porter had written an intimate ballad for lovers parting at train stations, troopships, beds.
The next morning the sailors told us that quite a number from the two troopships had been rescued and that they had all been taken to Naples, to which we too were to put in.
But there had been a similar thrash the night before, and another was planned for the day after, all three being designed as a wet run for a grand party on Saturday night which, it was foreseen, would be traumatic enough to require a succession of tailing-off parties, continuing long after I had flown to Singapore to catch the troopship.
Surrounding her were the rest of the fleet’s warships, the troopships of the expeditionary force, and the merchantmen and opium clippers of the China traders.
Already, I supposed, the troopships, with their hibernated marches, engines flaming, quiet in the near vacuum of space, burned their silent, purposeful way teward the shores of Gor.
The Marines had gone aboard the troopships in neat files, packs on their backs and rifles slung, gear boxed to be swung from dock to hold.
I was despatched accordingly, in the troopship Orontes, and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.
The lieutenant retired hurt, and the captain glanced along the line of troopships.
They would reach the Malwa galleys in less than ten minutes, long before the Roman troopships would be within effective rocket range.