troopship
IPA: trˈupʃɪp
noun
- A ship used to transport military troops.
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Examples of "troopship" in Sentences
- Commandeered as a troopship in 1915.
- Converted to a troopship hull ID no.
- Requisitioned on 1941 as a troopship.
- Sixty miles from the troopship anchorage.
- Converted to a troopship at Newcastle upon Tyne.
- She was converted for use as a troopship in 1797.
- In 1798 she was converted to serve as a troopship.
- Convesion to a troopship completed in December 1945.
- Requisitioned in November 1940 and converted to a troopship.
- She was converted into a troopship and received the prefix HMAT.
- Only now he was in New York, fresh off a troopship, and had rung up and asked to see her.
- Julia had traveled back on a packed troopship with Rosie Frame and was full of funny stories.
- Basheer asked him where he was when the war ended, and he said, On a troopship heading for Japan.
- She declined a priority flight to Washington and instead took the first troopship headed for New York.
- The troopship was a converted "cattlewagon" made to carry two hundred colonists and assorted bushes and beasts.
- Julia, along with Rosie and Ellie, was scheduled to fly to Calcutta, where she was booked on a troopship for New York.
- I left England with the 14th Army on the troopship 'ORION' to India from where we came home on the American Warship the 'General Anderson'.
- Shaw traced the origins of these expectations to the wreck of the Birkenhead, a troopship and one of the Royal Navy's earliest steamships that had hit a rock and foundered off the coast of South Africa in 1852.
- On March 8, 1944, to the jaunty sound of band music, they boarded the SS Mariposa, an elegant luxury liner that had been used to run tourists from California to Hawaii before being requisitioned as a troopship, and set sail for India.
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