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  1. n. a part of a ship's company organized for special duties ashore

Examples

  • “Hornblower remembered that he had made no attempt to deny, while the admiral was questioning him and preparing his report, that he had been in command of the Sutherland the day she wore French colours and her landing party stormed the battery at Llanza.”

    Flying Colours

  • “On deck, a landing party was assembling; Pochhammer looked down from the bridge at the men in white gaiters carrying rifles, one oddly bringing his gas mask.”

    Castles of Steel

  • “She had received a commendation for the mission in which those renegade cybrids had been killed, the same mission that had seen the entire landing party under her command wiped out.”

    Simon & Schuster: BLAZE OF GLORY

  • “He had not been part of the landing party that had visited the governor of D’rahl, so he did not recognize T’grayn’s face on the screen when he came onto the bridge, but in the course of the conversation, it quickly became obvious who he was.”

    Simon & Schuster: BLAZE OF GLORY

  • “The wide prairielike field the landing party was busy poking around, as well as the forest beyond it, were done entirely in black, white, and shades of gray.”

    Warhorse

  • ““Sir, Lieutenant Worf’s landing party is back aboard the ship,” said Data.”

    Simon & Schuster: BLAZE OF GLORY

  • “There lay Noirmoutier to port, and the mainland astern; through the shredding mist he could make out the gaunt outlines of the semaphore station on the mainland — sixteen years ago he had been second in command of the landing party which Pellew had sent ashore to destroy it.”

    Flying Colours

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