troopship

IPA: trˈupʃɪp

Examples of "troopship" in Sentences

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.