hospital ship in English

noun
1
a ship that functions as a hospital, especially to receive or take home sick or wounded military personnel.
The underway replenishment ship Success helped sustain the force by conducting replenishment operations with coalition ships, including the USN hospital ship USS Comfort.

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1. The following day a German hospital ship was intercepted.

2. Early on the morning of 13 September, she aided bombed and burning British hospital ship HMHS Newfoundland.

3. The American crew learned from the first group of survivors that they were from the hospital ship Centaur.

4. Britannic, in full His Majesty’s Hospital Ship (HMHS) Britannic, British liner that was a sister ship of the Olympic and the Titanic

5. The subsequent dispatch of China's new hospital ship to Africa and Asia was a success, projecting the PLAN well beyond China's traditional sphere of influence.

6. The HMS Britannic had been serving as a World War I hospital ship when it struck a German mine five kilometres off the island of Kea, 60km southeast of Athens, in …

7. On 15 May 1943, Helm assisted in the search for survivors from the Australian hospital ship Centaur that had been torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-177, south east of Cape Moreton, near Brisbane.

8. Speaker was transferred to be a replenishment carrier, with a supply of replacement aircraft for the fleet's operational losses and receiving "flyable duds" for repair and injured crew for treatment on the hospital ship Oxfordshire.

9. English: Pacific Ocean (May 5, 2006) - Hospital Corpsman Megan Beach, checks the flow of blood through a cell saver, during training for an Antilogous blood transfusion aboard Military Sealift Command (MSC) hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19)

10. For experienced technical divers, the Britannic is the quintessential wreck dive.This Olympic class ocean liner is the sister ship of perhaps the most famous vessel in history: RMS Titanic.Unlike the Titanic, Britannic never carried passengers on the transatlantic route.Instead, the British government employed it as a hospital ship with the outbreak of World War I.