troop-ship

Parali, and taking away their ship transferred the rest of the crew to a troop-ship which was ordered to keep guard about Euboea.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Euboea in a troop-ship; 92 they were afterwards employed in conveying to Lacedaemon certain envoys sent by the Four Hundred, Laespodias, Aristophon, and Melesias.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

But the most interesting object of all was the screw troop-ship

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Anon, there would embark in that troop-ship when she got to Gravesend, a mighty general, of large property

Our Mutual Friend 2004

She was an Indian troop-ship, and her lowest troop-deck had great square ports along the water level.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

As part of the buildup of American forces in Northern Australia, Ike decided one day to send the transatlantic liner Queen Mary, temporarily converted to a troop-ship, from a port on the eastern coast of the United States to Australia.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

Toward evening, when the officers clustered together on the forward bridge, the band of the Second Infantry played tune after tune, until on our quarter the glorious sun sunk in the red west, and, one by one, the lights blazed out on troop-ship and war-ship for miles ahead and astern, as they steamed onward through the brilliant tropic night.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

France, and the Tennessee Society of New York City entertained him when he left his troop-ship.

Sergeant York And His People

America was ready for Sergeant York when among the returning soldiers his troop-ship touched port -- the harbor of New York in May, 1919.

Sergeant York And His People

At New York he was taken from the troop-ship when it reached harbor and the spontaneous welcome given him there and at Washington was not surpassed by the prearranged demonstrations for the Nation's distinguished foreign visitors.

Sergeant York And His People